Weary Ploughman Public House
WEARY PLOUGHMAN PUBLIC HOUSE, BRIXHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195176
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Weary Ploughman Public House
- Statutory Address:
- WEARY PLOUGHMAN PUBLIC HOUSE, BRIXHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195176
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Weary Ploughman Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEARY PLOUGHMAN PUBLIC HOUSE, BRIXHAM 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:
- WEARY PLOUGHMAN PUBLIC HOUSE, BRIXHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 89499 56319
Details
BRIXHAM
SX8956 BRIXHAM ROAD, Churston Ferrers 1946-1/4/49 (South West side) Weary Ploughman Public House
II
Formerly known as: Churston Links Hotel BRIXHAM ROAD Churston Ferrers. Shown on OS map as Churston Links Hotel. Public house. Probably early 1860s. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slated roof. Rendered chimneys with prominent flat caps. Double-fronted, double-depth plan with secondary block set back to left. 2 storeys. 3 windows wide with 2 further windows in secondary block. Doorway flanked by Doric pilasters supporting entablature. Windows have moulded architraves, those in ground storey with friezes and cornices that reach to the sills of the windows above. Barred sashes: 6 over 6 panes in ground storey, 3 over 6 panes in second storey. Raised band at cornice-level in ground storey. Deep flat eaves-cornice. Right side wall is similar; centre doorway with raised moulded surround and entablature. Barred sashes in left-hand window of each storey. Left side wall has 1 window of the same design per storey; also with barred sashes, except for the upper sash in ground storey. Secondary block (which lies nearest Brixham Road) is similar to the main building, but with plain window surrounds; barred sashes in front and left side walls. INTERIOR: only public rooms in ground storey inspected; these have been considerably altered. The building adjoins Churston Station and was presumably the Station Hotel mentioned in directories from 1866 onwards. The station, originally known as Brixham Road, was on the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway and was opened in 1861. The Torbay and Brixham Railway, which ran from here to Brixham, was opened in 1868. (MacDermot ET: History of the Great Western Railway: 1964-: 125, 183; Kelly: Directory of Devonshire: 1866-: 763).
Listing NGR: SX8949956319
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383556
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
MacDermot, E T, History of the Great Western Railway 1833 to 1863, (1964), 125 183
Kellys Directory in Devonshire, (1866), 763
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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