FORMER LOOK OUT TOWER INCORPORATED WITH TOWER HOUSE AT CORNER OF NEWTON ROAD

FORMER LOOK OUT TOWER INCORPORATED WITH TOWER HOUSE AT CORNER OF NEWTON ROAD, DEVON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1212738
Date first listed:: 27-Feb-1974
List Entry Name:: FORMER LOOK OUT TOWER INCORPORATED WITH TOWER HOUSE AT CORNER OF NEWTON ROAD
Statutory Address:: FORMER LOOK OUT TOWER INCORPORATED WITH TOWER HOUSE AT CORNER OF NEWTON ROAD, DEVON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1212738
Date first listed:: 27-Feb-1974
List Entry Name:: FORMER LOOK OUT TOWER INCORPORATED WITH TOWER HOUSE AT CORNER OF NEWTON ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER LOOK OUT TOWER INCORPORATED WITH TOWER HOUSE AT CORNER OF NEWTON ROAD, DEVON ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER LOOK OUT TOWER INCORPORATED WITH TOWER HOUSE AT CORNER OF NEWTON ROAD, DEVON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: Salcombe
National Grid Reference:: SX 73963 38840

Details

1. 1591 DEVON ROAD

Former look-out tower incorporated with Tower House at corner of Newton Road SX 7338 1/46

II

2. Believed to be circa 1795, altered, 2 storey, stone, semi-circular central arched niche with entrance door inserted, circular staircase projection at south corner. Slightly projecting parapet and castellations with slate slab copes. Lower floor below present road level. Original stone stair rises in higher circular turret, also castellated.

Listing NGR: SX7396338840

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Legacy System number:: 397235
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.