31, EAST STREET
31, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200977
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 31, EAST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 31, EAST STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200977
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 31, EAST STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 31, EAST 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:
- 31, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashburton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 75699 69957
Details
ASHBURTON
SX7569 EAST STREET 849-1/10/46 (North side) 07/08/51 No.31
GV II*
House. Early C18. Front has exposed stone rubble ground storey. Slate-hung second storey with unique, small fish-scale slates (probably original). Later slate-hanging on face of dormer and on left side wall. Slated roof. Rendered chimney on right gable end. One room wide, 2 rooms deep, with through-passage to left of ground storey. Staircase adjoins rear end of passage to right. 2 storeys with garret. 2 windows wide. Ground storey has 4-panelled door to left, the 2 bottom panels flush. To right, a pair of plain sash windows set in a wide blocked opening. Above the ground storey a moulded wood cornice with slate-hanging (not the original) swept out over it. Upper storey has 6-paned sash windows in moulded flush frames, the right-hand window of 2 lights. Coved eaves-cornice. Dormer gable spans whole front; two 6-paned sash windows, slate-hung bargeboards. Interior: inspected during building work in 1977. Wood bolection-moulded chimneypieces. Wood stair with square newels, turned balusters, heavy moulded handrails. Unusual roof with square centre post braced at all 4 corners; front gable truss has collar pegged to face of principal rafters. Similar fish-scale slates were found lying loose in the garret of Nos.35-37 (odd) High Street, Totnes, in 1989. (Laithwaite M: 1977-).
Listing NGR: SX7569969957
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376024
- 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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