Burnhills

BURNHILLS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1252742
Date first listed:
20-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:
Burnhills
Statutory Address:
BURNHILLS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1252742
Date first listed:
20-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:
Burnhills
Statutory Address 1:
BURNHILLS

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
BURNHILLS

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

County:
Devon
District:
Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Colebrooke
National Grid Reference:
SS 77267 01109

Details

COLEBROOKE COLEFORD SS 70 SE 3/107 Burnhills

GV II

House. Probably C17, refurbished circa 1840, modernised circa 1970. Plastered cob and rubble; rubble stacks topped with plastered C19 brick; slate roof of circa 1840. 3-room plan house facing west with entrance hall and stairs right (south) of centre between the 2 main heated rooms. Small roan on left end. Right end stack and central rear lateral stack. 2 storeys. Regular but not symmetrical 3-window front. Central ground floor C20 bay window includes casements with glazing bars. The rest are 16-pane sashes, all except first floor right with horns. C20 door and wide hipped and slate-roofed porch on plain timber posts right of centre. Interior: is mostly result of C19 and C20 modernisations although C17 fireplace is exposed in right room. It has volcanic ashlar sides with neatly chamfered jambs, a plain oak lintel resting on oak pads, and an inserted C19 oven in left side with cast iron door. Roof not inspected. Coleford is an unusually unspoilt and picturesque hamlet in which Burnhills stands across the end of the main street.

Listing NGR: SS7726701109

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Legacy System number:
435816
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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