Meadow Bank
MEADOW BANK, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250554
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Meadow Bank
- Statutory Address:
- MEADOW BANK, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250554
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Meadow Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEADOW BANK, THE GREEN
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:
- MEADOW BANK, THE GREEN
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 76890 07753
Details
MORCHARD BISHOP THE GREEN, Morchard Bishop SS 7607 - 7707 11/170 - Meadowbank - II
House. Mid C17 with C19 addition. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stacks with C20 brick chinmey shafts; thatch roof. 3-room plan house facing south. The left (western) room is a C18 addition with rear lateral stack. Middle room has front projecting lateral stack and right (eastern) room has rear corner stack. Outshots to rear. 2 storeys. Irregular 3-window front made up of mostly C19 casements with glazing bars and some old glass. Right end ground floor casement has an internal iron security bar with twisted stem to central casement. C20 doors left of centre and at right end. C20 casement without glazing bars to right of stack is blocking C17 doorway. Roof half-hipped both ends. Right (east) end includes a probably late C18 - early C19 2-light casement to stairs. Rear outshots include some late C19 - early C20 windows with leaded glass. Interior: cob crosswalls between rooms. Right (eastern) room has late C17 - early C18 chamfered and runout stopped beam. A chamfered and scroll-stopped half-beam is probably mid-C17 stop survive. Half-beam against right room crosswall is chamfered with scroll stops adn crosswall includes C17 cupboard near front. Roof over these 2-rooms made up of A-frame trusses with pegged dovetail lap-jointed collars. Left (western) roof includes late C18 A-frame truss of roughly finished timbers with plain pegged lap-jointed collar and X-apex. Ground floor this end has no exposed beam, the fireplace is blocked and is lined with C19 plank wainscotting. This room was once the parlour of an inn according to the present occupants.
Listing NGR: SS7689007753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432963
- 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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