Kewsland
KEWSLAND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164010
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Kewsland
- Statutory Address:
- KEWSLAND
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164010
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1980
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Kewsland
- Statutory Address 1:
- KEWSLAND
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:
- KEWSLAND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Tawton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 60055 26206
Details
BISHOPS TAWTON SS 62 NW 11/13 Kewsland 25.4.80 (formerly listed as Kewsland Cottages)
- II
House. C16, with C20 alterations. Roughcast colour-washed upper storey, exposed rubble stone to lower storey. Half-hipped thatch roof. Lateral stack to front with battered cap and drip, heightened in brick and projecting bread oven with slate cap. Tall rubble stack to rear with bread oven, brick shaft and weatherings. 3 room through passage plan. 3-window range in small openings of three 2-light casements, 6 panes per light. 2-light and 3-light hall window to left of stack, 4 panes per light. Slated lean-to canopy to through-passage doorway to right, with C20 single storey right-angled projection with lean-to roof at right end. Rear- side (facing road) has gabled thatched dormer to centre above two outshuts with slated lean-to roof. Interior not inspected but recorded in Alcock "Cruck Catalogue" as having 3 pairs of cruck blades with "H-type apex" and said to have oak panelling to hall.
Listing NGR: SS6005526206
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98491
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Alcock, N W, Council for British Archaeology Research Report in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, (1981)
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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