Guest House at Buckfast Abbey
GUEST HOUSE AT BUCKFAST ABBEY, BUCKFAST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209740
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Guest House at Buckfast Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- GUEST HOUSE AT BUCKFAST ABBEY, BUCKFAST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209740
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Guest House at Buckfast Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUEST HOUSE AT BUCKFAST ABBEY, BUCKFAST ROAD
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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:
- GUEST HOUSE AT BUCKFAST ABBEY, BUCKFAST ROAD
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 74050 67393
Details
BUCKFASTLEIGH
SX7467 BUCKFAST ROAD, Buckfast 1011-1/5/32 Guest House at Buckfast Abbey 10/01/51 (Formerly Listed as: BUCKFAST ROAD, Buckfast The Gate House and St Theresa's Cottage)
GV II
Abbey guest house. Early C14 with later alterations. Local stone rubble; slate roof, partly asbestos, partly natural laid in diminishing courses, gabled at ends; stacks with stone rubble or rendered shafts. Plan: the entrance was on the east side at the SE corner of the open hall, lit by 2 large windows on the east side and presumably by 2 similar on the west side. The hall had a domestic piscina in the south wall and 2 service doorways to the south end service rooms which were chambered over. The upper end probably contained dormitories on 2 floors. After the Dissolution parts of the building were taken down, it was narrowed when the west wall was replaced and it was reused as farmbuildings and for modest domestic accommodation. In c1800 the building was converted into a row of cottages. There have also been late C19/early C20 alterations. EXTERIOR: Brown's published account indicates precisely how much medieval and post-medieval masonry survives. 2 storeys. 4:1-window east front. Left-hand block, separately-roofed, has pointed archway, original entrance to hall, to left and large opening on first floor. Centre block, now the bookshop has 3 ground-floor 2-light casements; large entrance to late C19/early C20 cross passage at left end and modern doorway to booskhop to right of centre. Four 3-light casements to first floor. Right hand block has one first-floor 3-light casement and one ground-floor 2-light casement. The east wall has a scatter of casement windows. The service end is preserved in an unroofed condition, its features are described in detail by Brown. INTERIOR: refer to Brown's report. Historical note: this is an important medieval survival, a rare surviving example of a monastic building of this type. Pevsner points out that it represents "an exceptional discovery, as little is known of the buildings on the fringes of medieval monastic sites". (Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 222-226; Proceedings of Devon Archaeological Society: Brown S W: Excavations & Building Recording at Buckfast Abbey, Devon: Devon: 1988-).
Listing NGR: SX7405067393
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392220
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 222-226
Proceedings of the Devon Archaeological Society in Proceedings of the Devon Archaeological Society, (1988)
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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