Higher Thorne Cottage and Attached Outbuilding
HIGHER THORNE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170929
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Thorne Cottage and Attached Outbuilding
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER THORNE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170929
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Thorne Cottage and Attached Outbuilding
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER THORNE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
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 THORNE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckland Brewer
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 41906 16303
Details
BUCKLAND BREWER SS41NW 10/70 Higher Thorne Cottage and attached outbuilding GV II Farmhouse, probably a longhouse now house. Late medieval; remodelled in C17; mid/late C19 alterations. Colourwashed render over cob set on stone plinth; gabled thatch roof; rendered stone end stack to right of house. Plan: of longhouse type with 2-unit house set to left of shippon, divided by a through-passage in shippon. 2 storeys; 2-window range. Mid/late C19 inserted entry to left has open-fronted porch set in front of C19 plank door. Flat rendered arches over mid/late C19 two to 3-light casements; 2 similar windows in left-hand bay of shippon, the lower window probably representing a mid/late C19 blocking of one of the through-passage doors; loft opening above C19 plank door to shippon; old (possibly C17) plank door to through-passage entry to rear. Interior: shippon has cobbled floor with laterally-placed muck channel, and three C17 A-frame trusses with halved and crossed apexes; the partition wall on the left side of the shippon, which flanks one side of the through-passage, has a late medieval raised cruck with a collar and its ridge purlin set diagonally into a yoked apex (Alcock type Ll); the cruck has heavy smoke blackening on the side facing the house. Through-passage has two ovolo-moulded (probably reset) joists, one with a jewel stop. Interior of house; chamfered bressummer over open fireplace with cloam oven; round-arched cream hob. Mid/late C19 straight-flight stair to first floor, which has c17 plank door to left, and C17 A-frame roof with pegged collars (apex not visible).
Listing NGR: SS4190616303
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91387
- 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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