Poplar Lawn and Attached Walls and Gate Piers

POPLAR LAWN AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 40, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1269215
Date first listed:
29-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:
Poplar Lawn and Attached Walls and Gate Piers
Statutory Address:
POPLAR LAWN AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 40, FORE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1269215
Date first listed:
29-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:
Poplar Lawn and Attached Walls and Gate Piers
Statutory Address 1:
POPLAR LAWN AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 40, FORE STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
POPLAR LAWN AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 40, FORE STREET

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

County:
Devon
District:
Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Shaldon
National Grid Reference:
SX 93276 72290

Details

SHALDON

SX9372 FORE STREET, Shaldon 25-1/6/58 (North East side) 29/07/83 No.40 Poplar Lawn and attached walls and gate piers

GV II

House. Early C19 remodelling of a formerly symmetrical C18 house, extended c1850-60. Stucco over cob and timber framing, slate roof with stacks to rear right and right. Formerly 3-room through-passage plan with a late C19 2-storey right wing incorporated into the design. The room to the rear left is now part of a house to the left (not listed). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 4-window range. Early C19 6-over-6-pane sash windows, 6/9-panes to the ground floor. The C18 left-of-centre 6-panel door is set in a doorcase which has pilasters supporting an entablature with a triglyph frieze and modillion cornice. INTERIOR: a former open fire to the rear right wall, an early C19 closed-string dogleg staircase with a swept swan's neck pine handrail and splayed panelled shutters to the ground floor. A small C18 2-panel door leads to the attic where the original structure to the 3-bay roof has threaded purlins. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a wall approx 2m high attached to the front right corner extends forward for approx 10m, turns to the left and curves forward to front the house, with pyramidal capped gate piers toward the centre.



Listing NGR: SX9327672290

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
461008
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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