The Highwaysmans Haunt
THE HIGHWAYSMANS HAUNT, NEW EXETER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164761
- Date first listed:
- 04-Apr-1978
- List Entry Name:
- The Highwaysmans Haunt
- Statutory Address:
- THE HIGHWAYSMANS HAUNT, NEW EXETER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164761
- Date first listed:
- 04-Apr-1978
- List Entry Name:
- The Highwaysmans Haunt
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HIGHWAYSMANS HAUNT, NEW EXETER ROAD
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 HIGHWAYSMANS HAUNT, NEW EXETER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chudleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 87974 80688
Details
CHUDLEIGH NEW EXETER ROAD SX 88 SE 1/64 The Highwaymans Haunt 4.4.78 II
House in use as restaurant. Circa late C16/early C17 with thorough late C20 renovations and additions. Whitewashed rendered cob and stone; thatched roof hipped at left end, gabled at right end; right end and 2 axial stacks, all with brick shafts. The core of the main range is a 3 room and passage plan (passage no longer exists) with the lower end to the right, the hall heated by the right hand axial stack and the inner room heated by the left hand axial stack. The lower end appears to have been substantially rebuilt. A rear left wing at right angles to the inner room was formerly a dairy but has been incorporated into the house. A small single-storey block adjoining the range at the left end is a subsequent addition, similar addition at right end. There has been a large single-storey addition at the rear filling in the angle between the main range and rear wing. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window front, the eaves thatch swept down over the single storey block at the left end. No front door on main range, the entrance, which is C20, is into the single-storey block at the right end. Fenestration of 2-light casements with glazing bars. Interior In spite of modernization and change of use some interior features survive. 2-side pegged jointed crucks survive over the hall and inner room with collars mortised into the principals. No access to apex of roof at time of survey (1986). On the ground floor the former inner room (left end) has a chamfered cross beam with step stops; the hall has a chamfered cross beam with scroll stops. The fragments of a plank and muntin screen survive between hall and inner room with diagonal stops, to the muntins. In 1333 the property paid a hearth tax of 9s 4 1/2d.
Listing NGR: SX8797480688
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85320
- 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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