Higher Saunders
HIGHER SAUNDERS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170576
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Saunders
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER SAUNDERS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170576
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Saunders
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER SAUNDERS
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:
- HIGHER SAUNDERS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cheriton Fitzpaine
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 87177 06243
Details
CHERITON FITZPAINE CHERITON FITZPAINE SS 80 NE 7/31 Higher Saunders - GV II
House, former farmhouse. Early C17, remodelled and extended in late C17-early C18. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble or cob stacks topped with C20 brick; thatched roof. L-shaped building. 2-room plan to main block facing south away from the road and with a single room rear block behind left (west) end. End stacks to main block and gable end stack to rear block. 2 storeys. Irregular 3-window front of mid C20 casements, some timber and some iron-framed, with low thatch eyebrows over first floor windows. C20 door left of centre with C20 hipped thatch-roofed porch on plain posts. Stacks projecting from end walls, that to left is disused and without a chimney shaft. Interior: Rear and right front rooms have chamfered and step-stopped beams, both very worn. Left front room has C20 replacement beam. Left front has late C17-early C18 stone fireplace with curving pentan and plain chamfered lintel and right front has contemporary fireplace, its oak lintel has chamfer with runout stops and it includes a side oven with late C19 cast iron door. Roof of A-frame trusses with pegged lap- jointed collars.
Listing NGR: SS8717706243
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96483
- 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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