The Sanctuary and Sunnybank
THE SANCTUARY AND SUNNYBANK, UNDERHILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165682
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1977
- List Entry Name:
- The Sanctuary and Sunnybank
- Statutory Address:
- THE SANCTUARY AND SUNNYBANK, UNDERHILL
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- Date:
- 2002-06-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/07552/01
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165682
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1977
- List Entry Name:
- The Sanctuary and Sunnybank
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SANCTUARY AND SUNNYBANK, UNDERHILL
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 SANCTUARY AND SUNNYBANK, UNDERHILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lympstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 99112 84012
Details
SX 98 SE LYMPSTONE UNDERHILL, Lympstone
5/69 The Sanctuary and Sunnybank 18.11.77 - II
2 dwellings, formerly a single farmhouse (Underhill farmhouse). Late C16 with later alterations. Roughcast cob on stone footings; gabled-end thatched roof, the rear wing half-hipped. Originally a 3-room, through-passage plan house, the service-end to the right of the passage, with a rear parlour wing. A brick extension was added to the higher end in the late C19. Service end heated by an external end stack; hall heated by an external front lateral stack, with 2 set offs to each side, and a big front slated set off; the inner room was originally unheated and the end stack is probably level with the brick extension. Brick shafts. 2 storeys. Front: 4-window range; 2-light casement windows to first floor, under shallow eyebrow eaves; 2-light casement window to each of the 3 ground floor rooms. C19 and C20 casement windows to brick extension. Interior: parlour wing with 3 chamfered axial ceiling beams with cyma reverse mouldings and run-out stops. Screens might survive beneath present internal partitions. Upper crucks to wing and main range (roof space not examined).
Listing NGR: SX9911284012
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88569
- 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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