Dewcombe
DEWCOMBE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289268
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dewcombe
- Statutory Address:
- DEWCOMBE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289268
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dewcombe
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEWCOMBE
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:
- DEWCOMBE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brendon and Countisbury
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 76026 49054
Details
COUNTISBURY SS 74 NE 4/17 Dewcombe - GV II Farmhouse, now house. Probably early C19 with probably late C19 minor additions. Painted coursed stone rubble, with slate-hung gable end to west. Rendered stone stack with slate weathering and brick cap. Gable-ended graded slate roofs. Plan and development: cruciform plan with arms of equal length and central circular stack. Single rooms in each arm linked by angled passages at corners. Later outshuts in angles to north-west, north-east and south-east. The kitchen is in the west wing and the parlour in the north wing. The South wing was used as a dairy when the house was part of a farm. The staircase rises out of the east wing. 1 storey and attic. Exterior: entrance front to north. 1-light C19 wooden casements to ground floor and attic, that to ground floor with segmental brick-arched head. Left-hand outshut with small C19 wooden 1-light casement to left and C20 wooden casement to right with wooden lintel and late C20 2-leaf boarded door to left with wooden lintel. Rear of right-hand wing with 3-light wooden attic casement and ground-floor 2-light wooden casement. Gable-end of rear wing with 2-light wooden attic casement and ground- floor 1-light wooden casement. Interior: plain, with largely C18 joinery. The cross is an unusual domestic plan form, especially for so modest a house.
Listing NGR: SS7602649054
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397371
- 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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