Ruins of Gatehouse 130 Metres West of Columbjohn Farmhouse
RUINS OF GATEHOUSE 130 METRES WEST OF COLUMBJOHN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170597
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Gatehouse 130 Metres West of Columbjohn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- RUINS OF GATEHOUSE 130 METRES WEST OF COLUMBJOHN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170597
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Gatehouse 130 Metres West of Columbjohn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUINS OF GATEHOUSE 130 METRES WEST OF COLUMBJOHN FARMHOUSE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- RUINS OF GATEHOUSE 130 METRES WEST OF COLUMBJOHN FARMHOUSE
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 95948 99741
Details
SX 99 NE BROADCLYST COLUMBJOHN
5/82 Ruins of Gatehouse 130 metres - west of Columbjohn Farmhouse 30.6.61 - II
Ruins to gatehouse to Columbjohn Mansion (now destroyed). C16. Random rubble volcanic trap with dressed stone quoins and moulded wall plinth. The inner arch and wall, along with parts of the side walls of the building survive. Arch with composite concave and cyma recta moulding, with capitals and shafts with big roll moulding. To the north (exterior) is a hood mould with unusual stops in the shape of a diamond with three attendant bosses. Historical note: The Manor of Columbjohn was in the hands of the Courtenay earls of Devon by the early C15. It is possible that foundations were laid by Henry Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter, for an extensive new house but work stopped on his attainder in 1539. It was purchased by Sir John Acland (during the reign of Elizabeth) and the antiquarian Lysons believed him to have built a new house on the foundations laid by Courtenay. (Lysons, Magna Britannia, (1822) VI, 114). During March 1646 Columbjohn was the HQ of Sir Thomas Fairfax.
Listing NGR: SX9594899741
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 88395
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lysons, Reverend D, Lysons, S, Magna Britannia Devonshire Part 2, (1822), 114
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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