Culmstock Beacon
CULMSTOCK BEACON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308436
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Culmstock Beacon
- Statutory Address:
- CULMSTOCK BEACON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308436
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Culmstock Beacon
- Statutory Address 1:
- CULMSTOCK BEACON
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:
- CULMSTOCK BEACON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Culmstock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 11000 15067
Details
CULMSTOCK ST 11 NW 6/41 - Culmstock Beacon - II Warning beacon. Medieval or C16 origins but rebuilt after a collapse in 1870. Local stone rubble. Small beehive shaped building. Circular in plan the walls rise to a slightly projecting eaves under the rounded roof. There is a low flat- headed doorway to south and a circular opening in the roof approximately 1m across. There are also 2 loops in the walls and some narrow internal ledges which are thought to have lodged the fire bars. This is marked on Donn's map of Devon of 1765 as "Black Down Beacon". Source: Devon SMR
Listing NGR: ST1100015067
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95891
- 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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