The Thatched House
THE THATCHED HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165608
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Thatched House
- Statutory Address:
- THE THATCHED HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165608
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Thatched House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE THATCHED HOUSE
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 THATCHED HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stowford
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 41168 85445
Details
SX 48 NW STOWFORD SPRYTOWN
3/283 The Thatched House -
GV II
House partly in use as restaurant. Circa C16 core with substantial late C20 alterations. Probably cob, whitewashed and plastered with thatched roof hipped at left end, gabled at right end. Large projecting stack at right end, rendered axial stack on ridge, stack at left end. Changes in plane of front suggest several builds but the right-hand end is probably the earlier part of the house and may have been an open hall with a stack inserted backing on to a through passage. Present plan single depth with central rear wing. 2 storeys at the left end, single storey at the right end, probably with attic, thatch eaves eyebrowed over a window above the front door. Long irregular 5-window front with scattered fenestration. C20 porch on centre front, further entrance on front at left. C19 and C20 2-light casements with glazing bars. Access to interior unobtainable at time of survey, 1985 but true cruck recorded. Alcock, Cruck Construction, C.B.A. Res. Rep. 42 (1981) p. 108.
Listing NGR: SX4116885445
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92524
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Alcock, N W, Council for British Archaeology Research Report in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, Vol. 42, (1981), 108
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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