Wild Briar
WILD BRIAR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242514
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wild Briar
- Statutory Address:
- WILD BRIAR
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242514
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wild Briar
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILD BRIAR
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:
- WILD BRIAR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colebrooke
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 77177 99938
Details
COLEBROOKE LOWERTOWN SX 79 NE 5/138 Wild Briar
GV II
House, former shop and adjoining cottage. Probably early C19 with circa 1950 extensions. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble stack topped with C20 brick; thatch roof, corrugated asbestos to extension. House faces south away from road and comprises a single large room with rear lateral stack and former shop on left (west end. Circa 1950 service outshots to rear. 2 storeys to house, 1 storey with attic to former shop. House has irregular 2-window front of early C20 casements with glazing bars with C20 door at right end behind glass monopitch roofed and glass-walled porch. Former shop has C20 door at left end with contemporary window alongside. Gable-ended roof. Interior: has plain carpentry detail including 2 roughly-finished crossbeams to main room and rear fireplace is blocked. Cob crosswall between main house and former shop. Roof not inspected. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SX7717799938
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441934
- 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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