Leigh Barton
LEIGH BARTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169356
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Leigh Barton
- Statutory Address:
- LEIGH BARTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169356
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Leigh Barton
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEIGH BARTON
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:
- LEIGH BARTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Loxbeare
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 91204 14931
Details
SS 91 SW LOXBEARE
13/100 Leigh Barton - II
House. Circa mid C17 with thorough C20 renovations. Colourwashed rendered cob and stone rubble; slate roof (formerly thatched), gabled at ends; axial stack and rear lateral stack. Plan: The main range is 3 rooms wide, originally single depth with an entrance to right of centre against the back to back stacks heating the hall and right hand rooms, kitchen to the left heated by a rear lateral stack. 2-storey rear additions contain the main and service stairs (the latter in a turret) and the house has been extended by 2 rooms to the left which were probably formerly outbuildings. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1:4 window front with a change in plane and roofline to left of centre indicating the original extent of the C17 house. C20 glazed porch to right of centre with C19 front door directly into hall, further door to left into former outbuilding. C20 small-pane timber casements, the 4-light hall window may preserve the original embrasure. Interior: Ground floor only inspected. The hall has good double ovolo-moulded cross beams with elaborate stops and an open fireplace with dressed stone jambs, stone- lined bread oven and timber lintel. The left hand room has an open fireplace, C19 bread oven and replaced timber lintel. The entry has a short ovolo-moulded stopped beam to the right, right hand partition removed. The right hand room has roughly carpentered exposed cross beams and joists and may originally have been plastered, fireplace blocked. First floor and roofspace not inspected, roof timbers said to be partly replaced, partly burnt after an early C20 thatch fire.
Listing NGR: SS9120414931
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96743
- 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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