Bow Bridge House
BOW BRIDGE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218781
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Bow Bridge House
- Statutory Address:
- BOW BRIDGE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218781
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Bow Bridge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOW BRIDGE HOUSE
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:
- BOW BRIDGE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashprington
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 81220 56600
Details
ASHPRINGTON SX85NW BOW 6/38 Bow Bridge House
GV II
House. Circa early to mid C17. Local stone rubble with red brick window dressings; rendered left hand end wall. Grouted scantle slate hipped roof. 3 stone rubble lateral stacks at the rear with brick shafts. Plan: 3-room plan with an entrance stairhall between the equal-size right hand room and centre room; the left hand room is smaller. All the rooms are heated from lateral stacks at the back. There is a single storey wing behind the left hand end. Formerly there was a doorway in the front of the left hand room. Exterior: 2 storeys 1:3 window range; C20 facsimile 16-pane sashes, ground floor centre window is a tripartite sash with glazing bars; all in openings with red brick segmented circles, jambs and slate sills. Doorway to right centre has glazed C20 door and C19 wooden trellis porch. The ground floor left hand window was once a doorway. The right hand ground floor window also seems formerly to have been a doorway but it was originally a window. At the rear are 3 lateral stacks with set-offs, the right hand is smaller; between the centre and left hand stack there is a slated portico hood over the back doorway. Interior: Original C19 staircase with stick balusters, turned newel and moulded handrail; the remainder of the interior was not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX8122056600
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100947
- 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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