County Gate Information Centre and Gate Piers in Front on Either Side of Road (That Part in Countisbury CP)
COUNTY GATE INFORMATION CENTRE AND GATE PIERS IN FRONT ON EITHER SIDE OF ROAD (THAT PART IN COUNTISBURY CP)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213009
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- County Gate Information Centre and Gate Piers in Front on Either Side of Road (That Part in Countisbury CP)
- Statutory Address:
- COUNTY GATE INFORMATION CENTRE AND GATE PIERS IN FRONT ON EITHER SIDE OF ROAD (THAT PART IN COUNTISBURY CP)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213009
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- County Gate Information Centre and Gate Piers in Front on Either Side of Road (That Part in Countisbury CP)
- Statutory Address 1:
- COUNTY GATE INFORMATION CENTRE AND GATE PIERS IN FRONT ON EITHER SIDE OF ROAD (THAT PART IN COUNTISBURY CP)
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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:
- COUNTY GATE INFORMATION CENTRE AND GATE PIERS IN FRONT ON EITHER SIDE OF ROAD (THAT PART IN COUNTISBURY CP)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brendon and Countisbury
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 79356 48656
Details
COUNTISBURY SS 74 NE 4/16 County Gate Information - Centre and gate piers in front on either side of road (that part in Countisbury CP) - II Toll House and gate piers, now information centre. Early C19 with some late C20 alterations. Coursed stone rubble, with slate-hanging to south-west and rendered rear wing. Slate roof with gabled ends. Plan: L-plan, facing south-east. The rear wing is probably a later (C19 or C20) addition. Internal partitions since removed. 1 storey. Exterior: asymmetrical 3-window front, the 2 right-hand windows are in square bays over which the main roof is carried down. C19 wooden lattice casements, the right- hand 2 are of 3 lights and the left-hand one of 2 lights, and all have flat stone arches and slate cills. Doorway to left of centre has original gabled stone porch with a segmental stone-arched head and a C20 boarded door. C20 roof-lights to rear. Rendered external end stack to rear wing and C20 flat-roofed addition in angle. Interior: 4-bay roof to front range with collar trusses, and trussed rafters to rear wing. Pair of rough monolithic slate gate piers flanking Porlock-Lynton road in front of toll house, each with fixing holes for former gates. The eastern pier stands in Somerset as the county boundary passes down the centre of the road at this point.
Listing NGR: SS7935648656
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397370
- 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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