LONG HOUSE AT THE NORMAN LOCKYER OBSERVATORY

LONG HOUSE AT THE NORMAN LOCKYER OBSERVATORY, SALCOMBE HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1228628
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: LONG HOUSE AT THE NORMAN LOCKYER OBSERVATORY
Statutory Address:: LONG HOUSE AT THE NORMAN LOCKYER OBSERVATORY, SALCOMBE HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1228628
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: LONG HOUSE AT THE NORMAN LOCKYER OBSERVATORY
Statutory Address 1:: LONG HOUSE AT THE NORMAN LOCKYER OBSERVATORY, SALCOMBE HILL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LONG HOUSE AT THE NORMAN LOCKYER OBSERVATORY, SALCOMBE HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Sidmouth
National Grid Reference:: SY 13842 88283

Details

SALCOMBE HILL 1. 1633 GV Long House at the Norman Lockyer Observatory SY 18 NW 7/360 II 2. Administration block, comprising offices and laboratory. C 1912. 1 storey, 7 bays. Concrete block with flint rubble facing. Hipped asbestos roof. Mullion and transom windows. Boarded door. Founded by Sir Norman Lockyer for "astronomical observations and investigations and the promotion of astronomical study or other allied subject.

Listing NGR: SY1384288283

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Legacy System number:: 403292
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.