The Old Court House
THE OLD COURT HOUSE, ST LAWRENCE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1201022
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Court House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD COURT HOUSE, ST LAWRENCE LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-06-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/04473/15
- Rights:
- © Mr Dennis A. C. Raffell. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1201022
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Court House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD COURT HOUSE, ST LAWRENCE 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:
- THE OLD COURT HOUSE, ST LAWRENCE LANE
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 75703 69861
Details
ASHBURTON
SX7569 ST LAWRENCE LANE 849-1/10/170 (East side (off)) 10/05/73 The Old Court House (Formerly Listed as: ST LAWRENCE LANE (East side) Lambel's Cottage (Old Court House))
GV II*
Probably former priest's house attached to Chapel of St Lawrence (qv), now a private house. Late medieval, altered early or mid C17. Rendered solid walls with exposed red sandstone quoins. Asbestos-slated roof with 1970s horse-rider ceramic ridge-tile. C17 projecting stone rubble front chimney to right. 2-room-and-through-passage. Medieval hall to left with later chimneybreast in gable wall. Service room to right, converted to heated parlour in C17. House is likely to have extended further left originally; evidence of former rear wing here with battered wall. 2 storeys. Approximately centre doorway with early or mid C17 double-ovolo-moulded wood frame. Wood casement window with glazing-bars at either side. Early or mid C17 three-light window with ovolo-moulded mullions in upper storey to left. At rear of passage a medieval wood door-frame with sharply pointed arch. To right of it (behind the service end) a blocked doorway with plain red-sandstone jambs. Interior: stud-and-panel screens with chamfered studs both sides of passage screen to right has diagonal-cut stops and shouldered-head doorway; adjoining latter the remains of a matching doorway. Screen to left originally had flat-headed doorway about 2m wide, reduced in width in early or mid C17 by the insertion of 2 scratch-moulded studs. Right-hand room has fireplace with early or mid-C17 ovolo-moulded wood lintel; chamfered longitudinal beam supported at left-hand end by a shoulder-headed post that seems to be integral with the screen. C19 kingpost-and-ridge roof.
Listing NGR: SX7570369861
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376148
- 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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