12, BAYARDS COVE
12, BAYARDS COVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297053
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 12, BAYARDS COVE
- Statutory Address:
- 12, BAYARDS COVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297053
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 12, BAYARDS COVE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, BAYARDS COVE
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:
- 12, BAYARDS COVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dartmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 87853 50975
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX8750 BAYARDS COVE 673-1/6/37 (West side) 14/09/49 No.12
GV II
House, now divided into flats. c1839, some late C20 modernisation. Mixed construction; side and back wall of plastered stone rubble and front wall of slate-hung timber-framing above first-floor level; stacks with roughcast brick chimneyshafts and some old pots; slate roof. EXTERIOR: Ground floor now occupied by C20 garage door and contemporary windows above in slate-hung front. Canted bay rises through first and second floor, lower one containing horned 12-pane sashes (2 forward and one each side) and upper one containing aluminium-framed large picture windows. Smaller aluminium-framed canted bay window under gable. Left return built against Bearscove Castle (qv). Stone steps rise along right return where there are C20 doors to the flats but also some C19 twelve-pane sashes. INTERIOR: Not inspected, but large plain crossbeams were noticed. According to Freeman (see below) the quay was extended to Bearscove Castle in 1839, at the same time providing the site to build No.12. She also publishes an early C20 photograph which shows the house with its original front. (Freeman, Ray: Dartmouth and its Neighbours: Phillimore: 1990-: P.54; PL.80).
Listing NGR: SX8785350975
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387167
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Freeman, R, Dartmouth and its Neighbours, (1990), 54
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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