53, EAST STREET
53, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282918
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 53, EAST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 53, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282918
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 53, EAST STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53, EAST 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:
- 53, EAST 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 75782 69999
Details
ASHBURTON
SX7570 EAST STREET 849-1/9/61 (North side) No.53
GV II
House with shop. Late medieval; extended at rear, probably in late C17 or C18; remodelled in early or mid C19. Rendered stone rubble, except for rear wing, which has upper storey walls of cob to left and partly rough timber-framing to right. Slated roof. Rendered chimneys on front range at left-hand end of ridge and at right-hand end of rear wall. 2-room front range with central through-passage; right-hand room is a truncated former open hall, originally extending across the site of No.55. C19 stair behind left-hand room. 2-room rear wing to left, the front section originally an open-fronted cart linhay. 2 storeys. 2 windows wide. Render lined to imitate masonry. Lean-to porch and shop window to left of ground storey. 2-pane sash window to right. 2-light wood casements in upper storey; 3 panes per light. All windows have recessed box frames. Bracketed eaves-cornice with a light moulding beneath. Interior: stud-and-panel screens at either side of passage, boarded on the passage side, plain studding on reverse; only 2 original studs survive on left-hand side. Above right-hand screen an internal jetty (originally projecting into open hall) with rounded joist ends; latter now cut off towards rear end of room. In back wall of this room a C16 or early C17 granite chimneypiece with roughly shaped monolithic jambs and lintel; the inside cheeks of jambs incised to imitate ashlar, a rare (possibly unique) device in Devon. Left-hand room has blocked window in party-wall, suggesting the building was originally free-standing on that side. Roof structure retains one heavily smoke-blackened late medieval truss at right-hand end, adopting the lap-jointed collar with shaped ends, most commonly used in Devon in late C16 and C17; threaded purlins (one blackened one remains), no ridge. At left-hand end a possibly C18 truss with collar pegged to its face. Cart linhay has 2 round stone rubble columns. Rear end appears to have been a ground floor cellar with solid front wall; large fireplace with wooden lintel (renewed) in room above. Roof trusses in whole wing have collars pegged to their faces.
Listing NGR: SX7578269999
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376039
- 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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