Higher Eastington
HIGHER EASTINGTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250037
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Eastington
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER EASTINGTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250037
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Eastington
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER EASTINGTON
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 EASTINGTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lapford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 74596 09047
Details
LAPFORD EASTINGTON SS 70 NW 4/74 - Higher Eastington - II
House, formerly a small farmhouse. Probably early C16 with major later C16 and C17 improvements, modernised circa 1980. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; slate roof (formerly thatch). Modernised 3-room-and- through-passage plan house facing south-east with inner room on right (north- eastern) end. Large axial hall stack backing onto passage and apparently C19 end stack to inner room. Now 2 storeys. Regular 4-window front of circa 1980 casements with glazing bars and C20 front door to passage left of centre. Roof hipped each end. Good interior. The oldest apparent feature is the smoke-blackened roof structure over hall and inner room (replaced at service end), indicating that early C16 house was divided by low partitions and heated by an open hearth fire. Single side-pegged jointed cruck truss over hall has butt purlins with chamfered and cut diagonal stopped edges and threaded ridge. Rubble partition between hall and inner room is probably mid-late C16 and contains a pair of oak doorways at rear end; a round- headed doorway with chamfered surround and narrow flat-arch headed stair door with door rebate on hall side. Contemporary stairs to inner room chamber do not survive but chamber jetties into hall and the rounded ends of the inner room joists project into hall. Hall has massive late C16-early C17 rubble stack with its oak lintel soffit-chamfered with step stops. Half beam across chimney breast carrying hall floor is chamfered with step stops, probably early C17. It is inscribed with initials of Robert Newcombe with date 1701. Passage screens have been removed and unheated lower end has been much rebuilt and first floor structure renewed in C20.
Listing NGR: SS7459609047
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432269
- 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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