The Huxtables
THE HUXTABLES, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214339
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Huxtables
- Statutory Address:
- THE HUXTABLES, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214339
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Huxtables
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HUXTABLES, THE SQUARE
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:
- THE HUXTABLES, THE SQUARE
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 73598 29879
Details
N0RTH MOLTON THE SQUARE (west side), SS 7229-7329 18/196 The Huxtables - GV II House, latterly bakery, with former shop and cottage. Probably early C18 house, altered in the early C19 when shop and cottage were probably added or rebuilt. Rendered over stone rubble and cob. Gable-ended scantle-slate roof, hipped round corner. C20 bitumen covering on roof over cottage and part of shop. C20 asbestos slate roof to rear wing. Early C18 dressed stone stack with weatherings and C19 red- brick stacks. Plan and development: L-plan. C18 house to rear, facing north-east. Consisting of central principal room with staircase to rear, former kitchen to left with integral stack to front, and unheated inner room to right. L-plan shop range added to east, with integral end stack to right (north) and one-room plan rear wing. Two-room plan cottage adjoining to south, with axial stack to right-hand room backing onto central entrance passage and integral end stack to left. Two storeys. Exterior: Asymmetrical front to house wtih first-floor 16-pane boxed glazing bar sash. Pair of ground-floor doors under single segmental head, early C19 door to left with 6 beaded flush panels and old boarded door to right with strap hinges. Further small 2-leaf boarded door to right. Right-hand end of range with large projecting bread oven. Shop with pair of first-floor early C19 boxed 16-pane glazing bar sashes and ground-floor early C19 shop front consisting of 2 small-paned flat-roofed square bay windows and central recessed pair of half-glazed doors, with beaded flush lower panels, and panelled wall to right. Roofs of bays carried across to form porch. Cottage to left with symmetrical 2-window front; C19 two-light small-paned wooden casements and central C20 half-glazed door. Interior: Left-hand ground-floor room of house at rear has C18 cupboard to left of fireplace with H-L hinges. C18 cupboard to right-hand walll with raised and fielded panels, window seat to rear, and early C19 four-panelled door to staircase (rising at rear of central room). Central ground-floor room with rough chamfered spine beam. Early C19 staircase with stick balusters and turned newel to landing. Ground-floor room in rear wing of shop has fireplace with wooden lintel and and first-floor room has early C19 reeded chimney-piece with roundels at corners. Interior of cottage not inspected but plastered cross beam noted. This range of buildings stands on a prominent corner site in North Molton, facing onto The Square and the North Heasley road.
Listing NGR: SS7359529876
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399135
- 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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