Alscott Barton

ALSCOTT BARTON

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1170712
Date first listed:
19-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Alscott Barton
Statutory Address:
ALSCOTT BARTON

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1170712
Date first listed:
19-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Alscott Barton
Statutory Address 1:
ALSCOTT 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
ALSCOTT BARTON

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

County:
Devon
District:
Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Alverdiscott
National Grid Reference:
SS 52003 25226

Details

ALVERDISCOTT SS52NW 4/24 Alscott Barton GV. II Farmhouse. Late C17, with earlier C17 or late C16 origins to rear wing; early/mid C19 extensions to sides; C20 alterations. Colourwashed render over cob and stone to C17 house, and coursed slatestone rubble to C18 extensions; gabled slate roofs; brick ridge and end stacks. C17 house has 2-unit plan range to front with earlier wing at right angles to rear; C19 extensions flank front. Central taller C17 wing of 2-storey, 3-window range. Central mid C19 half-glazed door with trellised porch, flanked by C20 canted bay windows. First floor has, from left, early C19 sixteen-pane sash, late C19 horned 12-pane sash and mid C18 twelve-pane sash with thick glazing bars. Rear wing has taller ridge to roof. Early/mid C19 two-storey, 2-window range to right, with C20 ground-floor windows, late C19 horned plate-glass sash and mid C19 nine-pane sash; C20 door to rear. Early/mid C19 extension of one-storey and attic, 2-window range to left with C20 ground-floor windows and late C19 twelve-pane sashes set in gabled half-dormers; tall C19 outbuilding attached to left. Interior: mid C19 panelled doors; C19 plank door to rear left. Late C17 chamfered beams on ground floor; chamfered beams in earlier rear wing are of heavier scantling. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SS5200325226

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
91341
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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