15, FORE STREET

15, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208752
Date first listed:
20-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:
15, FORE STREET
Statutory Address:
15, FORE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208752
Date first listed:
20-Nov-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
03-May-1994
List Entry Name:
15, FORE STREET
Statutory Address 1:
15, FORE 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
15, FORE STREET

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 91709 66551

Details

TORQUAY

SX9166 FORE STREET, Barton 885-1/8/323 (East side) 20/11/52 No.15 (Formerly Listed as: FORE STREET, Barton No.15 Pavor Farmhouse)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C17. Plastered mass walls; thatched roof, replaced with corrugated asbestos to rear of ridge; stacks with rendered shafts, left end stack projecting. PLAN: Single-depth, 3-room plan, higher end to the right, entrance faces stair. Rear left outshut. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 6-window front. Entrance to left of centre with a fine moulded timber C17 doorframe, plank door with strap hinges and probably original overlight. Windows small 2-light casements with galzing bars. C20 glazed door onto small section of C20 verandah across front. INTERIOR: Centre room has a boxed-in cross beam. Right-hand room (divided into 2) has a chamfered axial beam with runout stops. First floor preserves a 2-panel door. Other features likely to be concealed behind modern plaster. Roof: Feet of of principal rafters visible upstairs are straight, apex of roof not seen on survey. A handsome late C17 farmhouse, now in a suburban setting.

Listing NGR: SX9170966551

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
390602
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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