FORMER MINERS' DRY AT SX 5119 7916

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249829
Date first listed:: 27-Jun-1991
List Entry Name:: FORMER MINERS' DRY AT SX 5119 7916
Statutory Address:: FORMER MINERS' DRY AT SX 5119 7916

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249829
Date first listed:: 27-Jun-1991
List Entry Name:: FORMER MINERS' DRY AT SX 5119 7916
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER MINERS' DRY AT SX 5119 7916

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER MINERS' DRY AT SX 5119 7916

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

County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Mary Tavy
National Park:: DARTMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SX5120079070

Details

The following building shall be added to the list:-

MARY TAVY SX 57 NW

4/89 Former Miners' Dry at SX 5119 7916

II

Miners' Dry. Mid C19. Walls of uncoursed slatestone rubble; gabled dry slate roof; large circular (NE) end stack finished in brick. Rectangular plan with large room divided by stone wall from small room with fireplace at right (SW) end. One storey. Front (NW) wall has segmental brick arches over 2 doorways and a central window; large inserted opening to right. Bolted A- frame trusses to interior. This building was constructed before 1884 and served as the "Dry" for Bennetts shaft, one of the many workings which formed part of the Devon Friendship Mine: it is the only surviving example of a Miners' Dry on Dartmoor.

Listing NGR: SX5120079070

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Legacy System number:: 94101
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.