Church House
CHURCH HOUSE, 11, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264772
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church House
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH HOUSE, 11, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264772
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH HOUSE, 11, HIGH STREET
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:
- CHURCH HOUSE, 11, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Totnes
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 80225 60443
Details
1. 5180 HIGH STREET (North Side) No 11 (Church House) SX 8060 SW 1/62 7.1.52. II* GV
2. Mid C16 merchant's house, altered. 3 storeys. 3 window bays. Welsh slate roof with old rendered masonry chimneys. Masonry party wall retaining moulded corbels of former 1st and 2nd floor jetties. Timber-framed front, 1st and 2nd floorrenestrated earlier C19; modern ground floor. Coved wooden eaves cornice. slate-hung 2nd floor with moulded string at flow level. Jettied 1st floor with carved wooden brackets carrying moulded bressumer. 1st and 2nd floors with flush framed sash windows with side-lights and glazing bars; 1st floor with single light sash window. Modern ground floor shopfront. Interior with mid C18 staircase with closed string, turned balusters and squared novel. 6 panel doors with raised and fielded panelling. 1st floor rooms with Elizabethan decorated plaster ceiling panels with rib decoration divided by ceiling beams. Remains of contemporary plaster overmantel with date "1586" 2nd floor with fine chimneypiece of Beer stone: 4 centred arch with moulded reveals in square opening with ogee moulding snd stops. Strapwork and shields in relief in spandrels. The house is recorded as being acquired in 1554 by William Ball, and was probably erected shortly before this date.
Listing NGR: SX8022560443
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426970
- 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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