Dean Thatch
DEAN THATCH, 44, DEAN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197130
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Dean Thatch
- Statutory Address:
- DEAN THATCH, 44, DEAN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197130
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Dean Thatch
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEAN THATCH, 44, DEAN STREET
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:
- DEAN THATCH, 44, DEAN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 83649 00070
Details
CREDITON
SS834000 DEAN STREET 672-1/6/26 (East side) 11/10/72 No.44 Dean Thatch
GV II
House. Probably early C18 or earlier. Roughcast,probably cob; thatched roof with a plain ridge, gabled at right end; end stacks with brick shafts. Plan: single-depth plan, 2 rooms wide, with central entrance. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical north front, 5 windows wide (one window blocked). Probably early C20, approximately central half-glazed front door. One ground floor window to the left, 2 to the right, all C20 2-light timber casements with glazing bars. Similar casements to the first floor of different sizes; blocked window to left of front door on first floor. The right return, facing the street has one first floor probably C19 2-light casement, 6 panes per light. Interior: Plain. Roof of A-frame trusses, pegged at the apex of the principal rafters. Collars at attic floor level appear to be replacements with metal fixings. One of a handful of thatched houses remaining in the town. Dean Street contains the earliest buildings in Crediton and this house makes an important contribution to the mixed streetscape.
Listing NGR: SS8364900070
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386976
- 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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