Higher Town Place
HIGHER TOWN PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263444
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Town Place
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER TOWN PLACE
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- Date:
- 2005-04-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/14146/07
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263444
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Town Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER TOWN PLACE
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 TOWN PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lapford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 73127 08674
Details
LAPFORD LAPFORD SS 70 NW 4/79 - Higher Town Place - II
Farmhouse. C16, late C19 refurbishment. Plastered cob and rubble; rubble stacks, 2 topped with C19 brick; slate roof. 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south-east with inner room at left (south-west) end. Projecting end stack to inner room with C19 oven projection, projecting front lateral stack to hall and rear lateral stack to service end room. Newel stair turret to rear of hall. Rear of passage now blocked. 2 storeys. 4-window front, all late C19 horned large-pane sashes with margin panes, and including tripartite sashes to hall and service room. Hall window bay has been brought forward flush with the front of the stack. Late C19 partly glazed front door is set inside the passage on the right of hall stack. Roof is gable-ended and carried forward to front. Hall stack has apparently original stone chimney shaft. Interior is largely result of C19 modernisation but most is probably superficial as C16 plan is intact. Hall has C16 chamfered and step stopped crossbeams and cob wall at upper end includes a late C17-early C18 cupboard with fielded panel door on H hinges. Roof inaccessible.
Listing NGR: SS7312708674
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432286
- 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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