The Quaker House
THE QUAKER HOUSE, 50, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236353
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Quaker House
- Statutory Address:
- THE QUAKER HOUSE, 50, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236353
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Quaker House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE QUAKER HOUSE, 50, HIGH 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:
- THE QUAKER HOUSE, 50, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Totnes
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 80073 60438
Details
1. 5180 HIGH STREET (South Side) No 50 (The Quaker House) SX 8060 SW 1/57 7.1.52.
II GV
2. Early C19 refronting of earlier building. Formerly used as Quaker Meeting Room. 3 storeys. 1 window. Hipped Welsh slate roof. Slate-hung, timber-framed front with plain eaves band. Architraved sash windows to 1st and 2nd floors with glazing bars. Ground floor loggia over pavement carried by wooden Doric columns. Front retains moulded stone corbel to party wall of earlier building. Good early C19 shopfront with semi-elliptical bowed shop window with small panes. Shop doorway with rectangular fanlight with margin lights. ½ glazed double shop door. Interior altered, but retains chamfered oak ceiling beams to ground floor. (M. Laithwaite).
Listing NGR: SX8007360438
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427324
- 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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