Megan House Prospect House
MEGAN HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261214
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Megan House Prospect House
- Statutory Address:
- MEGAN HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261214
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Megan House Prospect House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEGAN HOUSE
- Statutory Address 2:
- PROSPECT HOUSE
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:
- MEGAN HOUSE
- Statutory Address:
- PROSPECT HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cruwys Morchard
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 86412 11243
Details
SS 81 SE CRUWYS MORCHARD PENNYMOOR 2/92 Prospect House and Megan House - II 2 houses, formerly 1. C18 or earlier origins. Whitewashed rendered stone and cob; thatched roof with plain ridge, hipped at right end, gabled at left end, half-hipped at end of wing. End stacks to main range with brick shafts the right end stack cob, projecting lateral stack to wing with brick shaft. Plan: Single depth main range, 3 rooms wide with probably later 1 room plan front left wing forming an overall L plan. 2 storey C19 or C20 rear addition to main range. The early plan form is not entirely clear : the main range may have been a 3 room plan house with a central unheated dairy and principal heated rooms on either side, possibly evolved from a 3 room and through passage plan arrangement but there is insufficient surviving evidence for certainty. All 3 fireplaces have bread ovens (1 blocked). The house is divided into 2 : Megan House to the left. 2 storeys. 1:3 window asymmetrical front, wing to the left. Propect House (the 2 right hand rooms of the main range) has an approximately central entrance facing a straight stair with a glazed porch with a corrugated iron roof and small C20 timber windows. Megan House (left hand room of main range and wing) has a glazed porch in the angle with Propect House, entrance into wing ; 2 C20 casements in end wall of wing. Interior : Mostly modernized ; Megan House has a probably C18 open fireplace in the wing with stone rubble jambs, a chamfered timber lintel and a bread oven. The fireplace in the main range is partly blocked and may conceal early features. Propect House has a probably C18 fireplace to the right end stack with stone rubble jambs, a plain lintel and bread oven. A timber lingel in the right hand wall of the stack suggests that there may have been a smoking chamber. There is a small plain fireplace on the first floor with cob jambs and a timber lintel. Roofspace of Prospect House only inspected, the roof timbers are porbably C19 or C20, slender unsquared poles both for the main trusses, which have metal fixings and for rafters; similar battens.
Listing NGR: SS8641211243
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437865
- 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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