Kentisbury Village Hall

KENTISBURY VILLAGE HALL, BAYCLOSE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1169140
Date first listed:
09-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Kentisbury Village Hall
Statutory Address:
KENTISBURY VILLAGE HALL, BAYCLOSE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1169140
Date first listed:
09-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Kentisbury Village Hall
Statutory Address 1:
KENTISBURY VILLAGE HALL, BAYCLOSE LANE

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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
KENTISBURY VILLAGE HALL, BAYCLOSE LANE

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

County:
Devon
District:
North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Kentisbury
National Grid Reference:
SS 62017 43509

Details

KENTISBURY BAYCLOSE LANE SS 64 SW 5/91 Kentisbury Village Hall II Village hall, formerly school. Circa 1870. Unrendered stone rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roof with crested ridge tiles. Single room main range built gable end to front with smaller gable-ended lobby projecting at right angles from left side forming T-shaped plan with lean-to porch to hall side entrance in the front angle. Single storey. All windows have pointed arched lights. Stepped 3 light stone mullion windows to gable ends of main range and lobby projection, those to main range in pointed arched surrounds. Right-hand side of main range has two large transomed windows with hipped dormer roofs, each of 3 lights. Buttress between with moulded ashlar sill band extending to each side. Open timber framing to upper part of lean- to porch with short chamfered timber posts and shaped raking struts forming entrance archway. Interior: arch-braced timber roof to main range springing from moulded stone corbels.

Listing NGR: SS6201743509

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
97067
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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