Orchard House

ORCHARD HOUSE, WILLAND ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1169073
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Orchard House
Statutory Address:
ORCHARD HOUSE, WILLAND ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1169073
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Orchard House
Statutory Address 1:
ORCHARD HOUSE, WILLAND ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
ORCHARD HOUSE, WILLAND ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Halberton
National Grid Reference:
ST 01231 12830

Details

HALBERTON WILLAND ROAD, Halberton ST 01 SW 2/207 - Orchard House - II 2 dwellings, formerly 1 farmhouse. Possibly late C16, with later alterations. Coursed rubble under gabled-end slate roof. Formerly a 3-room, cross-passage plan, with lower end rear wing. External front lateral stack heats hall, external end stacks heat other main rooms, and in internal gable end stack heats wing; all with brick shafts. 2-storeys. Front: dominant external lateral stack with moulded set-offs at foot of brick shaft, and a string course at the eaves level of a catslide roof to the left which covers a stair turret and landing that lacks any front windows but which is lit by a small 2- light end window; C19 porch, slated and glazed, with 1 2-light casement window to both floors to the right. Right-hand elevation: 2-light casement windows to each floor to left of external end stack; this stack has paired set-offs below shaft, and a single set-off at the eaves level of the rear lower end wing, the 2 features being connected by a course of edged brick, perhaps marking the site of a stair turret; clear masonry joint between main range and wing; one 2-light window to each floor of this elevation of wing. Rear: two 4-light windows to ground floor, set close together, and sharing one hood mould, now partly missing, 15 leaded panes per light and stanchions; C19 two-light window, and 1 of 4-lights, with 15 leaded panes per light, under hood mould to first floor. Wing with 1 ground floor window, boarded under hood mould to ground floor and a blocked window above with no hood mould. Interior: chamfered cross beams to inner room, and deeply chamfered axial beam to lower end; interior not entirely inspected; roof not seen.

Listing NGR: ST0123112830

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Legacy System number:
95393
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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