Workshop Ranges Including Smithy Adjoining Thorne House to South
WORKSHOP RANGES INCLUDING SMITHY ADJOINING THORNE HOUSE TO SOUTH, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214204
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Workshop Ranges Including Smithy Adjoining Thorne House to South
- Statutory Address:
- WORKSHOP RANGES INCLUDING SMITHY ADJOINING THORNE HOUSE TO SOUTH, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214204
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Workshop Ranges Including Smithy Adjoining Thorne House to South
- Statutory Address 1:
- WORKSHOP RANGES INCLUDING SMITHY ADJOINING THORNE HOUSE TO SOUTH, EAST 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:
- WORKSHOP RANGES INCLUDING SMITHY ADJOINING THORNE HOUSE TO SOUTH, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Molton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 73799 29787
Details
NORTH MOLTON EAST STREET (south side), SS 7229-7329 18/146 Workshop ranges including smithy - adjoining Thorne House to south GV II
Workshops including smithy. Probably mid C19, with mid C20 alterations. Uncoursed stone rubble with some red-brick dressings. Gable-ended and hipped scantle-slate roofs. Plan: Asymmetrical U-plan. Long range adjoining at rear of left hand end of Thorne House (q.v.), with 2 short ranges adjoining at right angles to south and west forming U-plan. Smithy in short returning range. Long east range converted to domestic use in the mid to late C20. Two storeys. Exterior: Smithy has boarded loft door with segmental brick head and ground-floor 2- leaf boarded door with segmental brick head. South range with small-pane loft window to right and large ground-floor boarded door. Main (east) range refenestrated in the mid to late C20, with C20 two-light wooden casements. Gabled loft dormer off-centre to right. Interior: Complete working blacksmith's shop in south-east range with painted brick forge, working bellows in metal frame, with long handle, bench with tool rack, and cobbled floor. It is said that this was formerly a wheelwrights shop.
Listing NGR: SS7379929787
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398964
- 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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