Old Beams
OLD BEAMS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161983
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Old Beams
- Statutory Address:
- OLD BEAMS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161983
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1965
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Old Beams
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD BEAMS
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:
- OLD BEAMS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton St. Cyres
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 88111 97951
Details
NEWTON ST CYRES THE VILLAGE SX 89 NE 5/44 Old Beams - (formerly listed as 26.8.65 Old Beans) GV II
House. Probably C15 with C16 and C17 improvements and some later work. Plastered cob on rubble footings; cob and volcanic stone stacks with brick tops exposed above thatch. 3-room and through passage plan along street, with inner room to right (south-west end) and later additions to rear. Now 2-storeys throughout. Asymmetrical 4-window front to road on north-west. Passage door left of centre with simple trellis porch. Mainly C19 casements; the largest is of 4-lights to hall beneath mid -C19 bow window with thatched gable over with shaped bargeboards. The house has a long and complex structural history. Apparently, the earliest part is defined by the south-easternmost 3 roof bays (over hall and inner room); jointed cruck trusses distinguished by slip-tenons augmenting the side-pegging of post to principal, and yokes under each apex. This structure is completely smoke-blackened suggesting a house originally divided by low partitions. A more conventional side- pegged jointed cruck carries roof 1 bay further north-east. It too is smoke blackened. A framed partition over the upper passage screen is smoke-blackened on both sides suggesting 2 open hearths in second phase. During C16 both ends were floored and stone stack inserted to hall backing onto the passage. The hall was floored in C17 by a chamfered beam with scroll stops. Both the small cob wing behind inner room and kitchen wing behind service room are probably C17 additions. Some of service end rebuilt in C19. Clearly more early carpentry remains hidden.
Listing NGR: SX8811197951
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96396
- 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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