Lower Lye
LOWER LYE, LYE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1171239
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Lye
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER LYE, LYE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1171239
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Lye
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER LYE, LYE LANE
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:
- LOWER LYE, LYE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stockland
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 24768 05557
Details
ST 20 NW STOCKLAND LYE LANE 1/553 Lower Lye
II*
House, formerly a farm house. Circa early C16 open-hall house with inserted floor and stack. Stone rubble, plastered at rear. Thatched roof with half-hipped and gabled ends. Three rooms and through passage plan with later wing at rear of lower end. Two storeys. Long three window range. Small casements with glazing bars. Doorway to through passage to right of centre with plank door and thatched porch. Axial stack at ridge backing onto through passage. Another stack at lower gable end. Both later insertions and rebuilt at top in brick. The unheated inner room has a later (now truncated) projecting stack at the higher end. Later wing at rear of lower end forming L-shaped plan and with thatched half-hipped roof. Round stair turret in the angle and another round stair turret to side, above the back door of through passage, which has a heavy chamfered doorframe and thatched hood. Interior: smoke-blackened roof with jointed cruck trusses and hip. Plank and muntin screens one at lower side of through passage, the other at inner end of hall. Two solid tread newel stairs.
Listing NGR: ST2476805557
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88227
- 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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