Moorland View
MOORLAND VIEW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215509
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Moorland View
- Statutory Address:
- MOORLAND VIEW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215509
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Moorland View
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOORLAND VIEW
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:
- MOORLAND VIEW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Twitchen
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 78875 30476
Details
TWITCHEN SS 7830-7930 17/217 Moorland View - GV II House, possibly formerly part of larger house. Probably early C17, probably remodelled in the mid-to late C19. Coursed stone rubble and cob. Cob to first floor at front refaced in stone rubble in the C20. Some larger dressed stone quoins and C19 brick dressings. Gable-ended asbestos-slate roof. Brick stacks. Plan: Two-room central-entrance plan, facing south-east. External end stack to larger principal right-hand room and integral end stack to smaller left-hand room. The house is probably a remodelling of a (possibly larger) C17 house. The old front doorway into the right-hand room was probably blocked when the present doorway was probably inserted in the C19. Cranked rear wall. Two storeys. Exterior: Roughly symmetrical front with 3 windows to first floor and 2 to ground floor; late C20 two-light wooden casements, those to ground floor with concrete lintels. Roughly central mid-C20 half-glazed door with wooden lintel and C19 gabled porch on shaped brackets. Blocked doorway to right of present door (see straight joints). Probably C18 central first-floor 2-light wooden casement lighting top of stairs to rear. Interior: C17 ceiling frame in right-hand ground-floor room consisting of chamfered cross beam and chamfered joists with jewelled and angled straight-cut stops. Large C17 open fireplace to right with dressed sandstone (large blocks) jambs and large wooden lintel. C17 ceiling frame in left-hand ground-floor room with C17 deep- chamfered cross beam and plain joists. C17 open stone fireplace to left with large dressed blocks to right-hand jamb and chamfered wooden lintel with runout stops. Central C19 staircase. Recess in end wall of right-hand bedroom, possibly former window. Roof-space not inspected. House undergoing building work at time of survey (October 1987).
Listing NGR: SS7887530476
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400621
- 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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