12, WEST STREET

12, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1282861
Date first listed:
10-May-1973
List Entry Name:
12, WEST STREET
Statutory Address:
12, WEST STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1282861
Date first listed:
10-May-1973
Date of most recent amendment:
01-Sept-1992
List Entry Name:
12, WEST STREET
Statutory Address 1:
12, WEST 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
12, WEST STREET

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

County:
Devon
District:
Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Ashburton
National Park:
Dartmoor
National Grid Reference:
SX 75545 69853

Details

ASHBURTON

SX7569 WEST STREET 849-1/10/186 (North side) 10/05/73 No.12 (Formerly Listed as: WEST STREET (North side) Nos.12 AND 14)

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House with shop. Probably C16 or early C17; possibly earlier. Rendered, timber-framed front. Slated roof. Rendered chimney on left side wall. 2 storeys with garret. 1 room wide, 2 rooms deep with centre stair to right; passage to left of rear ground floor room. 2 storeys with garret. 2 windows wide. Gable ended house; jettied at first floor with large plastered corbel at right-hand end. Ground storey has 2 plain shop windows; half-glazed C19 door with moulded bottom panels, off-centre to left. 8-paned sashes in second storey. 2-light wood casement with glazing bars in centre of gable. C19 patterned bargeboards and finial. Interior: ground floor front room has chamfered ceiling-beam with possible step-stops (mutilated). Dog-leg early C18 staircase, rising to garret; turned balusters, moulded handrail, square newels. Rear inner doorway, to left, has chamfered wood lintel with corbel on left side. Leads to passage with unusual early or mid C17 panelling on right: horizontal planking with ovolo-moulded ribbing nailed on to form small rectangular panels. On first floor, stud-and-panel partition, scratch-moulded towards rear room, chamfered towards staircase. C18 panelled doors. Roof trusses have lap-jointed collars with shaped ends (some missing); threaded purlins, no ridge; no smoke-blackening.

Listing NGR: SX7554469856

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
376164
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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