Higher Venn
HIGHER VENN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250275
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Venn
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER VENN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250275
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Venn
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER VENN
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 VENN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Morchard Bishop
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 78024 05828
Details
MORCHARD BISHOP SS 70 NE 5/109 - Higher Venn - II
House, former farmhouse. Mid C17, modernised circa 1970. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone stacks with C20 brick tops; slate roof (formerly thatch). 3-room house facing south (away from road). Central and left (west) room form a lobby entrance house with back-to-back fireplaces under an axial stack; the right room with projecting end stack may be an addition and is separated from rest by thick cob crosswall. 2 storeys. 4 window front of circa 1970 16-pane sashes. Circa 1970 slate-roofed conservatory at right end and circa 1970 panelled door left of centre and immediately left of broad pilaster. Roof is hipped both ends. Interior: preserves most mid C17 features. Left end room has 2 elm crossbeams, the centre room has one. All are chamfered with scroll stops as too are the oak lintels of both back-to-back fireplaces. Left fireplace includes large stone side oven. Roof is inaccessible. Circa 1970 extensions to rear.
Listing NGR: SS7802405828
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432565
- 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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