CATOR HIGHER CATOR

CATOR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241425
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: CATOR HIGHER CATOR
Statutory Address:: CATOR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241425
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: CATOR HIGHER CATOR
Statutory Address 1:: CATOR
Statutory Address 2:: HIGHER CATOR

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:: CATOR
Statutory Address:: HIGHER CATOR

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

County:: Devon
District:: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Widecombe in the Moor
National Park:: DARTMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SX 68305 76834

Details

WIDECOMBE-IN- SX 67 NE THE-MOOR 1/138 Cator and Higher Cator -

- II

Former longhouse, now extended and divided into 2 houses. C16 with later additions. Shippon at south end rebuilt in C20; north end extended, with lean-to on west side, in C20. A long lean-to on west side, probably mostly of C18 or early C19; parts of it could be earlier. Granite rubble. The original house-part is thatched; present owners say the lowest layer of thatch has not been removed in their time. Granite rubble chimneystack on each gable; that on south (heating former hall) is of small stones and has a tapered cap that on north is of larger stones but with a plain top. The other roofs are covered with asbestos slates, except for the lean-to on west (facing road), which has real slates. The basic plan appears to be the traditional 3-room one, but with a long inner room at the north end; this has now been sub- divided, leaving a cross-passage on the south and a smaller room (now part of Higher Cator) on the north. The hall has its stack backing on to shippon (on the south) with a winding staircase in a shallow turret beside the stack on the east. There is now no cross-passage at the north end of the shippon, but one is reported to have existed before this end of the building collapsed in early C20. 2 storeys; lean- tos single-storeyed. East front, facing garden, is 4 windows wide in the old house- part. Windows are mostly C19 wood casements with 2 or 3 panes per light, but left- hand second-storey window is early or mid C18; it is of 3 lights with lightly- moulded wood mullions, the 2 outer lights having diamond-shaped leaded panes of old glass. At left-hand end is the slightly projecting, rounded stair turret with a single, small stone-framed window. The front wall of the hall to right is built out almost level with the turret. To right of this again is the doorway into the inserted cross-passage; it has a C20 stone porch with a re-used segmental-arched granite doorway brought from a barn at Huccaby Farm, Lydford. The windows flanking the porch in ground storey have granite lintels, that to right being chamfered. The C20 lean-to at right-hand end has an early C16 stone window-head with 2 moulded round-arched lights, brought from Lizwell Farm, Widecombe; the left half of the left light is a restoration. The west front, facing the road, is almost entirely concealed by the lean-to, which has mostly small-paned wood casement windows, except for 2 C20 metal casements at the right-hand end. Higher Cator (to left) has an old plank door. Cator has an old chamfered granite doorway with a flattened 4-centred arch; this was brought from Peak Hill farm, near Yelverton. To left of it is a small square window (now blocked) with hollow-moulded granite jambs extending almost the full height of the opening. Beneath it is an old granite mounting-block with 3 steps. Interior: Hall has chamfered upper-floor beams with straight-cut stops; plain joists. Fireplace has hollow-moulded right jamb and lintel of granite. Left jamb rebuilt; in this side is an oven with stone-framed opening. To left is the winding staircase with granite steps. Stone wall at upper end, rising only through ground storey. Inner room not inspected (except for the inserted passage); owner says gable-fireplaces on both floors (now blocked in) have plain granite lintels. Former shippon has original drain, now floored over. Back of hall stack, facing former cross-passage, is plain. House-part has old roof-trusses with plain feet; no inspection hatch to roof-space. Source: information from the owners, Sir Guy and Lady Sayer.

Listing NGR: SX6830576834

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Legacy System number:: 440430
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.