Court House
COURT HOUSE, ROCK HOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292043
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Court House
- Statutory Address:
- COURT HOUSE, ROCK HOUSE LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292043
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Court House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT HOUSE, ROCK HOUSE LANE
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:
- COURT HOUSE, ROCK HOUSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 92508 68406
Details
TORQUAY
SX96NW ROCK HOUSE LANE, Maidencombe 885-1/2/411 Court House 20/11/52 (Formerly Listed as: MAIDENCOMBE VILLAGE Court House Hotel)
GV II
Formerly known as: Court Farmhouse. House, partly converted to holiday flats. Late C16 in origin, extended and altered in the C20. Stone rubble and plastered cob; artificial thatch roof; gabled at ends; stacks with rendered shafts. PLAN: Overall L-plan. Main range with doorway into what may have been the former cross passage at the right end. Plan otherwise very altered; cross wing projects to front at right and consists of a fine parlour on the ground floor with a lateral stack on the inner return and adjoining winder stair. Small closet in rear right corner. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Main range 2:2 window front, the 2 left-hand windows in a 1950s addition. Panelled front door to right with a thatched porch. 2 ground-floor windows are glazed with early C19 sixteen-pane sashes, C20 first-floor timber casements. The wing, to the right, has 2 windows in the gable end wall and a lateral stack on the inner return. INTERIOR: Parlour has richly-moulded intersecting beamed ceiling. Fireplace reduced in size; blocked newel stair alongside has a timber arched doorway. Closet has a small timber-framed window. The first-floor retains a similar doorway at the top of the stairs, and a second and an axial beam with scroll stops. Roof: Apex not inspected but no evidence of cruck trusses on first floor.
Listing NGR: SX9250868406
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390769
- 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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