The Dell
THE DELL
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206403
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Dell
- Statutory Address:
- THE DELL
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08465/04
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206403
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Dell
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DELL
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 DELL
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:
- SX7445869317
Details
ASHBURTON
SX76NW SUMMERHILL
849-1/3/242 The Dell
19/02/86
(Formerly Listed as:
Barn at Summerhill Farm)
GV II
Farmhouse, later barn and stable, now house. Late medieval,
altered C18 or C19. The building was reconverted to a house in
the late 1980s. Stone rubble, part rendered. Slated roof. Plan
L-shaped. North-west wing has opposing wide doorways,
presumably to former threshing floor. 2 storeys. Irregular
openings, now filled with late C20 doorways and windows.
South-east side has blocked openings, one with ventilation
slit in the blocking; stone steps to upper storey; low lean-to
with wooden posts, the spaces infilled with stone rubble (this
lean-to belongs to Summerhill Farmhouse, qv). Old list refers
to "part timber-framed partition" and "substantial remains of
late medieval roof. 8 trusses of originally jointed-cruck form
though all the wall posts have been removed. Slightly cambered
collars and threaded purlins with a few original rafters
considerably smoke blackened."
Listing NGR: SX7445869317
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375989
- 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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