The Maltster's Arms
THE MALTSTER'S ARMS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164420
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Maltster's Arms
- Statutory Address:
- THE MALTSTER'S ARMS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164420
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Maltster's Arms
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MALTSTER'S ARMS
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:
- THE MALTSTER'S ARMS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sowton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 97397 91038
Details
SOWTON BISHOP'S CLYST SX 99 SE 1/32 The Maltster's Anns -
- II
Public house. Possibly early C16, but much altered and enlarged in the C18, C19 and C20. Plastered cob on stone footings, with much brickwork to rear; gabled-end slate roofs. The front block lies parallel to the village street and is a 2-room, through-passage plan house, now with a bar to either side of the entrance, the left-hand room heated by an external rear lateral stack with an C18 brick shaft; there is a wing to the rear of the right-hand room. 2 storeys. Front: 3-window range; shaped eaves brackets; hornless sash windows to 1st floor with 3 upper and 6 lower panes; central doorway under moulded canopy on console brackets approached by 3 steps with simple C19 iron railings; panelled door. To the left a 3-light casement window, to the right a window bay with rounded corners, with a 1:3:1 pane C20 casement, and a moulded cornice. Rear wing with 12 and 16- pane hornless sash windows. Interior: roof (not inspected); Dr Alcock describes it as of arched brace construction, the braces deeply chamfered, the trusses about 5'6" apart; it resembles the roof of the stable block at Bishop's Court (q.v.) this could indicate that the front range was originally a barn until its conversion to accommodation in circa 1700. N W Alcock, 'Houses in an East Devon Parish', Trans.Devon Assoc., 94 (1962),p.p. 223, 217.
Listing NGR: SX9739791038
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86167
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, (1962), 223 217
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, (1962), 223 217
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, (1962), 223,217
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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