Hobbacott Down
HOBBACOTT DOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278566
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hobbacott Down
- Statutory Address:
- HOBBACOTT DOWN
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- Date:
- 2007-06-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/16673/09
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278566
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hobbacott Down
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOBBACOTT DOWN
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:
- HOBBACOTT DOWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Launcells
- National Grid Reference:
- SS2445204823
Details
SS 20 SW LAUNCELLS
7/38 Hobbacott Down
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GV II
House. Formerly incline keeper's house and toll house to the Hobbacott Down
incline plane on the Bude Canal. 1820, probably designed by James Green, Engineer
to the Bude Canal (q.v. aqueduct and canal bridge at Burmsdon), later alterations
and extension. Stone rubble, 2 stone stacks with brick chimneys, renewed slate
roof. Single depth plan with 2 front projecting wings left and right with hipped
slate roofs. Single storey front. Left front wing former toll house, with
separate entrance. Rear outshut and lean-to extension to right return of right
front project. Front has off-centre door, renewed timber sash to right. Renewed
timber sash in front wall of right projection. C19 interior lost through
dereliction, repairs being carried out at time of resurvey.
Interior includes range "T.BOX. MARHAMCHURCH", and cloam oven in former
kitchen. Blocked toll window in former toll house. Hobbacott Down incline plane
was the longest of the canal incline planes and was operated by 2 buckets, each
capable of holding 15 tons of water, 1 bucket descending a 225 ft shaft to raise
the boats up a 935 ft long plane in 4 minutes. Between 1824 and 1832 the house was
lived in by John Honey, clerk, acting agent, and acting engineer to the canal,
whose letters between 1830 and 1832 give details of the day to day working of the
canal. Helen Harris and Monica Ellis, The Bude Canal, (1972). Illustrations
showing the house in relation to the plane p.54 and 82. Group value with the
scheduled incline plane and scheduled associated building.
Listing NGR: SS2445204823
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 64843
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harris, H, Ellis, M, The Bude Canal, (1972), 54
Harris, H, Ellis, M, The Bude Canal, (1972), 82
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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