Ley Marden
LEY MARDEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307117
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Ley Marden
- Statutory Address:
- LEY MARDEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307117
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Ley Marden
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEY MARDEN
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:
- LEY MARDEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Yarnscombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SS5643623395
Details
SS 52 SE
13/269
YARNSCOMBE
Ley Marden
GV
II
Former rectory. 1867, designed by R.D. Gould of Barnstaple (Devon Record Office) at a
cost of £1,500 (White's Devon 1839). Local stone rubble with Bathstone dressings.
Slate roof, stone rubble stacks. Gothic style.
Description approximate as access unobtainable at time of survey (1988).
Asymmetrical plan. The entrance elevation has 3 gables to the front and is slightly
set back to left and right, with a slated lean-to porch on stout timbers into the
right return of the central block. A second door into the left hand end has a
chamfered stopped stone doorframe. Windows include some stone mullioned casements
and later windows.
Interior: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS5643623395
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91886
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
White, , Devon, (1839)
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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