THE MEADS

THE MEADS, DINNEFORD STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240780
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: THE MEADS
Statutory Address:: THE MEADS, DINNEFORD STREET

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Date:: 2003-09-03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240780
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: THE MEADS
Statutory Address 1:: THE MEADS, DINNEFORD STREET

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE MEADS, DINNEFORD STREET

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

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Thorverton
National Grid Reference:: SS 92410 02286

Details

SS 90 SW THORVERTON DINNEFORD STREET (west side), Thorverton 8/140 The Meads - GV II House. C18 with C20 alterations and addition. Whitewashed and rendered, probably stone to first floor level, thinner walls include brick at first floor level ; thatched roof with plain ridge hipped at ends to main block, slate roofed C20 addition under lower roofline at right end, slate hung at right end; single-storey block has a left end stack and rear lateral stack, right end stack to right end addition. Plan The thatched block is a single-depth 2 room plan house with a central entrance facing a straight stair. Presumably one room was the kitchen but it is not clear which. In the C20 a single-storey outbuilding to the right of the house was converted to accommodation and linked to the house by a 1 room plan 2-storey linking block. Exterior 2 storeys. Approximately symmetrical 3 window front to the thatched block and 2 windows to the slate-roofed addition, canted bay to the single-storey block at the right end. The thatched block has a central entrance with a thatched porch; first floor windows left and centre probably C18 or early C19 sliding sashes, first floor and ground floor right hand windows 2-light casements with small panes, ground floor window left with replacement C20 glazing. Lean-to porch in angle between thatched and slate-roofed block, the latter is slightly set back and has 2-light small pane casements. Interior Largely modernized, some C18 joinery. Roofspace not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS9241002286

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Legacy System number:: 439203
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.