Meadow House
MEADOW HOUSE, TWICHEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209863
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Meadow House
- Statutory Address:
- MEADOW HOUSE, TWICHEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209863
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Meadow House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEADOW HOUSE, TWICHEN 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:
- MEADOW HOUSE, TWICHEN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burrington
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 63828 17046
Details
BURRINGTON TWITCHEN LANE SS 61 NW
5/40 - Meadow House 20.2.67 - II
House, formerly vicarage. Some late medieval fabric survives, but heavily remodelled in late C18. Painted rendered stone rubble and cob. Concrete tiled roof to front of gable-ended main range, asbestos slate roof to rear, and slate roof with hipped end to rear service wing. Rendered axial stack, stack at left gable end; axial stack and demolished shaft to stone rubble stack to end of service wing. Plan: Main range conforms to a 3-room and wide cross-passage plan, the lower end to left, with stack backing onto the passage which contains dog-leg staircase to the rear. Long service range extends at right angles to rear creating T-shaped plan. Part of a reused smoke-blackened ridge survives near the axial stack suggesting the core of the building is medieval in origins. However, the axial stack forms a solid wall partition and appears to have once formed a gable end, suggesting the lower end including the wide passage were added as part of the C18 remodelling. The medieval plan is therefore not recoverable; certainly the main range until the circa 1920s extended a further 2 bays, including an additional entrance, at the right gable end. 2 storeys. 4-window range. 16-paned sashes throughout, the ground floor sashes rising virtually from ground level; all are hornless except at ground floor right end. Off-centre doorway with shallow bracketted timber canopy, panelled doorcase and raised and fielded 6-panelled door with decorative fanlight. Interior: Late C18 and early C19 joinery mostly survives throughout including 6- panelled doors to ground floor, some 2-panelled doors to upper storey, panelled window shutters, and dog-leg staircase lit by semi-circular arched rear stair window, with stick balusters and moulded and wreathed handrail ramped up to turned newels. Decorative moulded plaster cornices to the principal 2 rooms each side of the passage, the left-hand room retaining C19 marble chimneypiece. Wide-span, roof structure, principally C18 with rough pegged trusses, but section of smoke-blackened ridge purlin survives close to axial stack.
Listing NGR: SS6382817046
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97168
- 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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