32, CHAPEL STREET
32, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209044
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 32, CHAPEL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 32, CHAPEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209044
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 32, CHAPEL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 32, CHAPEL 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:
- 32, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckfastleigh
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 73829 66125
Details
BUCKFASTLEIGH
SX7366 CHAPEL STREET 1011-1/6/51 (South side) No.32
GV II
National school, in use as builder's store. 1842. Local grey limestone rubble with some slatestone, first floor of right end and rear elevation slate-hung; brick dressings to front. Rear centre stack with stone and brick shaft. Natural slate roof, half-hipped at ends. Plan: deep rectangular plan with one doorway on front at left and one on the right return. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-bay front with regular fenestration. Chamfered 2-centred arched granite doorway to ground-floor right, panelled original timber door with Y-panelling. 2 original ground-floor 3-light high-transomed casement windows with timber ovolo-moulded glazing bars and diamond leaded panes. Flat brick arches over windows with moulded brick hoodmoulds. 3 similar first-floor windows with plain plate glass glazing. The left return has a central recessed doorway and 3 curious large, blind, round-headed arches on the first floor, perhaps indicating a previous industrial use. INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain features of interest including original roof. Historical note: school used from 1842-1875, when the Board School was built. After 1875 used for Sunday school, church meetings and temporary day school accommodation. Included for group value. (Bovett R: Historical Notes on Devon Schools: Devon: 1989-: 51).
Listing NGR: SX7382966125
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392230
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bovett, R, Historical Notes on Devon Schools, (1989), 51
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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