Fernside

FERNSIDE, POLSON HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1250628
Date first listed:
04-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:
Fernside
Statutory Address:
FERNSIDE, POLSON HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1250628
Date first listed:
04-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:
Fernside
Statutory Address 1:
FERNSIDE, POLSON HILL

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FERNSIDE, POLSON HILL

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:
SS7715806818

Details

SS 70 NE
5/183

MORCHARD BISHOP
POLSON HILL, Frost
Fernside

GV
II

House. C18. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stacks with C19 brick chimney
shafts; thatched roof. 2-room with central through-passage plan cottage facing
south-west. Left (north-west) passage partition removed this century. End stacks.
2 storeys. Almost symmetrical 3-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars,
most copies of C19 casements. Central doorway contains C20 glass door and C20 hood
with corrugated plastic roof supported on raking struts. A West of England
Insurance Company plaque is set high in the wall between central and left hand first
floor windows. Roof is hipped each end.
Interior: both ground floor rooms have plain chamfered cross beams and blocked
fireplace. Roof not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS7715806818

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
433070
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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