OLD PARK

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1170252
Date first listed:: 20-May-1985
List Entry Name:: OLD PARK
Statutory Address:: OLD PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1170252
Date first listed:: 20-May-1985
List Entry Name:: OLD PARK
Statutory Address 1:: OLD PARK

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: OLD PARK

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Broad Clyst
National Grid Reference:: SX 96508 95202

Details

SX 99 NE BROADCLYST

5/43 Old Park - - II*

Farmhouse. C14 or early C15 with later alterations and additions. Cob, rendered, gabled-end wheat reed thatched roof and brick chimney shafts, with hipped rear wing forming an L-shaped plan overall. Originally a 3-room cross passage plan, the lower end originally to the right, the inner room adapted to a kitchen with wing. One axial and 2 external end stacks to main house, the left-hand stack with projecting bake oven and one external end stack to wing. 2 storeys throughout. Front: 3 window range. Ground floor with 2 doors (a third door to the extreme right affords access to a C20 lean-to) and three 2 and 3 light timber casement windows, renewed. 3-light windows above, lintels at eaves level, C19 timber casements. Wing, 3 window range, 2-light C19 casements above; door, with a small 1-light window, and another of 3 lights. Rear: main range with a 1-light, 6-pane casement window, and a door with C20 brick surround; the wing with a door set between two 2-light windows, with no windows at 1st floor level. Interior: right-hand front entrance gives into passage, but the rear door is not opposed to this. To the left of passage is a plank and muntin screen, muntins chamfered, visible only under rear staircase. Axial stack fireplace backs onto passage. No significant features in right-hand room. Hall: with renewed fireplace, deeply chamfered unstopped beam and large internal window sill. The late inserted floor is one metre above the level of the original lower end, and 20 cms above that of the left-hand room. Left-hand room with large fireplace, and a massive chamfered beam. The front (external) entrance to this room was originally opposed by a rear door, now blocked. Roof: medieval, and heavily smoke-blackened throughout. 2 jointed crucks, one at left-hand end, the other adjacent, to the inserted axial stack. Both morticed and pegged at apex, massive cambered collars, morticed and side pegged, trenched purlins (Alcock, type E). Original twig battening heavily sooted. A louvre is set above the original service end and cross passage.

Listing NGR: SX9650895202

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Legacy System number:: 88358
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Alcock, N W, 'Council for British Archaeology Research Report' in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, (1981)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.