Higher Northcott Including Barn Adjoining to South
HIGHER NORTHCOTT INCLUDING BARN ADJOINING TO SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244664
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Northcott Including Barn Adjoining to South
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER NORTHCOTT INCLUDING BARN ADJOINING TO SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244664
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Northcott Including Barn Adjoining to South
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER NORTHCOTT INCLUDING BARN ADJOINING TO SOUTH
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:
- HIGHER NORTHCOTT INCLUDING BARN ADJOINING TO SOUTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashreigney
- National Grid Reference:
- SS5976714755
Details
SS 51 SE
5/10
ASHREIGNEY
Higher Northcott including barn adjoining to south.
II
Farmhouse. Circa early C17 possibly with late medieval origins, later C17 or early
C18, C19 and C20 additions. Plastered cob walls. Gable ended thatch roof. Brick
lateral stack at front of left-hand end, rendered rubble axial stack with brick
shaft built in front of it.
Plan: 3-room-and-through-passage plan with lower end to the left. Hall heated by
axial stack at its higher end with window bay in front. Lower room heated by stack
in front corner which is probably a C18 insertion. Unheated inner room. Beyond the
inner room, at the right end, is an L-shaped outbuilding addition, probably built in
the late C17 or early C18. C19 and C20 minor extensions made at rear of house.
Stairs inserted into passage in C20.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front of late C19 6-pane sashes at first
floor, late C20 single light casements without glazing bars on ground floor. To
right of centre is hall window projection with thatch extending down over it. C20
leanto porch in left-hand angle with hall bay has plank and part-glazed door to
passage behind it. Rectangular oven projection to hall stack to right of centre.
Gabled outbuilding wing projects from right-hand end with later lower extension in
front of it. At the left-hand end a C19 outbuilding has been added to the house
connecting it to a late C18 or early C19 barn which extends to the front of it.
Interior: hall has 2 roll-moulded axial beams, its fireplace has a chamfered wooden
lintel. Lower room has narrow-chamfered axial beam with run-out stops. Roof
trusses consist of probably C19 insubstantial rough straight principals and lapped
collars.
Listing NGR: SS5976714755
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90800
- 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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