The Old Estate House
THE OLD ESTATE HOUSE, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288123
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Estate House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD ESTATE HOUSE, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288123
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Estate House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD ESTATE HOUSE, THE SQUARE
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:
- THE OLD ESTATE HOUSE, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Molton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 73708 29877
Details
NORTH MOLTON THE SQUARE (east side), SS 7229-7329 18/202 The Old Estate House - GV II House. Mid C19, probably incorporating some C17 fabric. Stone rubble, rendered to front. Gable-ended asbestos-slate roofs. Brick stacks. Plan: L-plan. Two-unit central entrance plan front range, with integral end stack to left-hand room, probably lateral stack to rear of right-hand room, and staircase in central entrance hall. Wing to rear of left-hand room, with integral brick end stack. Two storeys. Exterior: Not quite symmetrical 3-bay front the windows disposed to the right; C19 four-pane sashes. Central early C19 six-panelled door (lower panels beaded flush, middle panels moulded recesed and upper panels glazed), with beaded pegged frame, and probably C20 pent-roofed porch. Shaped barge boards to left-hand gable end. Interior: Entrance hall with C19 encaustic-tile floor. Early to mid C19 staircase with closed string, stick balusters and turned newel posts. Mid C19 four panelled doors. Left-hand ground-floor room has tall open fireplace with stone jambs and probably reused C17 chamfered wood lintel, with scroll stop to left (roight-hand end of lintel truncated). Plastered chamfered cross beam in ground-floor rear room (present kitchen). First floor and roofspace not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS7370829875
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400604
- 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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