Smythen Cleave

SMYTHEN CLEAVE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1163444
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Smythen Cleave
Statutory Address:
SMYTHEN CLEAVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1163444
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Smythen Cleave
Statutory Address 1:
SMYTHEN CLEAVE

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SMYTHEN CLEAVE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Winkleigh
National Grid Reference:
SS 63634 10998

Details

WINKLEIGH SS 61 SW 6/135 Smythen Cleave II Cottage. Circa late C17 or early C18 with C20 addition. Plastered cob walls. Thatch roof hipped to left end gabled to right. Projecting rendered rubble stack at right-hand end with brick shaft. Plan: 2-room plan with entry into larger heated room to the right. C20 addition at rear. Exterior: 2 storeys. Regular 2-window front. To left on 1st floor is C19 2-light small-paned casement with 3-light one below. C20 3-light casement to right. Gabled C20 porch to right of centre with stable type door. C20 2 storey addition along rear wall. Interior: open fireplace with roughly chamfered cambered wooden lintel and oven. Insubstantial straight principal rafters resting on the wall-plate.

Listing NGR: SS6363410998

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
90926
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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