Higher Quarry
HIGHER QUARRY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1152246
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Quarry
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER QUARRY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1152246
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Quarry
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER QUARRY
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER QUARRY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitchurch
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX5217973864
Details
WHITCHURCH MOORTOWN
SX 47 SE
7/184 Higher Quarry
-
II
Farmhouse, now house. Early C17, probably re-oriented mid-late C17, with addition of
2-storey porch and outshuts left and right; C20 alterations. Granite rubble,
rendered except for porch, granite dressings, tiled roof with weathered gable end
stacks.
2-room and through passage plan with stair tower to original rear left (now front
right). In the later C17 the house was probably re-oriented, turned back to front,
with a 2-storey porch to the front of the passage, (formerly rear) a kitchen outshut
to front right and 2-storey dairy outshut to front left, both additions originally
unheated, dairy with small projecting porch to end left.
2 storeys, roof to front extended over additions left and right, central 2-storey
porch has hipped roof and 4-centred arched chamfered and run-out stopped granite
doorway with C20 door, C20 2-light casement under eaves. To right, a 3-light
chamfered granite casement, to left a similar 2-light and single light casement, all
C20 glazing, dairy porch has C20 glazed door and small single hollow-chamfered
granite light to side with iron stanchion. Left gable end has dairy with pitched
roof and 2-light chamfered granite casement at ground and first floor, projecting
beyond gable end of main range and with similar single granite light to rear. The
main range has external stack, 2-light chamfered granite casement at first floor to
left and continuous slate string extended around dairy. Right gable end has C20
single-storey porch to left with door, similar 2-light granite casement at first
floor left above kitchen outshut with C19 flue. Gable end external stack to main
range and 2-light granite casement at first floor right with mullion cut away, slate
string below window level. Rear has 3 windows, 12-pane sashes in exposed boxes at
first floor, ground floor has replacement 16-pane sash left and right of rear passage
door in granite, with 4-centred arch, chamfered, with C20 door.
Interior Much altered, in stair tower a granite newel stair around a wooden post;
hall/kitchen to right, with solid wall dividing this room from passage, partition
wall to lower end room to left.
Listing NGR: SX5217973864
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94094
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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