Rea Barn House
Rea Barn House, 2, Rea Barn Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195116
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Rea Barn House
- Statutory Address:
- Rea Barn House, 2, Rea Barn Road
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- Date:
- 2001-07-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/04731/04
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195116
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Rea Barn House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Rea Barn House, 2, Rea Barn Road
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:
- Rea Barn House, 2, Rea Barn Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brixham
- National Grid Reference:
- SX9244555567
Details
SX9255
1946-1/7/259
BRIXHAM
Higher Brixham
REA BARN ROAD (north side)
No.2 Rea Barn House
10/01/75
II
House. Probably C17; it carries a C20 date plaque inscribed A.D.1636. Solid roughcast walls. Asbestos slated roof; lower section to right is roofed with corrugated-iron. Rendered chimney with tapered cap on each of main house gable.
Small oblong building, probably of two- or three-roomed ground plan. Lower range to right, set back slightly; probably a former outbuilding. Two storeys, with garret to main house. Latter has three windows in ground storey with doorway between the two left-hand windows; upper storey has one window at each end. Right-hand range has one upper-storey window; ground storey covered by added lean-to. Late C20 stable-type door. Ground storey windows to right are plain, with late C20 wood frames; that to left a little older, six-panel with wood frame. Upper-storey windows have three-light wood casements, possibly C19, with two panes per light. Long, late C20 dormer with flat top.
Range to right has small three-light window in upper storey. Gable wall to left, facing Bolton Street, has projecting chimneybreast. To right of it in ground storey a mid/late C20 wood-framed window with a small, horizontally-sliding light at the bottom. Upper storey has a small window with six-paned fixed wood sash.
INTERIOR: not inspected. 1975 list description says it had 'some chamfered ceiling beams on ground floor and fireplace bressumer'.
Listing NGR: SX9244555567
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383719
- 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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