Higher Dunsaller
HIGHER DUNSALLER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261136
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Dunsaller
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER DUNSALLER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261136
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Dunsaller
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER DUNSALLER
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 DUNSALLER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 92130 01964
Details
SS 90 SW THORVERTON 8/106 Higher Dunsaller - GV II House. C17 with C20 renovations and alterations. Whitewashed plastered cob; thatched roof with plain ridge, hipped at left end, gabled at right end; end stacks to main range, projecting lateral stack to wing, all with brick shafts. Plan C20 alterations have made it difficult to decipher the original plan, the overall plan at present is an L with the main range on a north-south axis and an east-west wing at the north end, parallel to the road. It is possible that the house has been turned round and that the wing was the C17 main range but there are C17 carpentry details in both blocks. The present main range is a single depth 2 room plan arrangement with an entrance into the left hand room and a C20 stair in the centre. The east wing has 1 heated room and a narrow room (possibly a former passage) adjacent to the main range. Former farmbuildings adjoining the end of the wing have been converted to house accommodation and a C20 porch has been added in the angle between the 2 blocks. Exterior 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 3 window west front with a thatched porch and C20 front door to left of centre ; C19 or C20 timber casement windows with glazing bars including 2 separately-roofed attic dormers. Interior Largely modernized but some C17 features survive. Ground floor room right has a partly-blocked C17 fireplace with chamfered volcanic stone jambs and a scroll- stopped lintel. The wing has an axial beam which extends through both the heated and narrow unheated rooms, chamfered but scroll-stopped in the narrow unheated room only. Roof X apex pegged collar rafter roof trusses. The roofspace is plastered and a thin partition with cob infill projects into the roof approximately above the stairs. The roofspace over the wing has a complete plastered partition with a chamfered stopped C17 doorframe.
Listing NGR: SS9213001964
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438284
- 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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