Copper Key Inn
COPPER KEY INN, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308753
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Copper Key Inn
- Statutory Address:
- COPPER KEY INN, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308753
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Copper Key Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- COPPER KEY INN, FORE STREET
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:
- COPPER KEY INN, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Tawton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS6583701772
Details
NORTH TAWTON FORE STREET, North Tawton
SS 60 SE
6/110 Copper Key Inn (formerly listed as
the Globe Inn)
GV
II
Inn originally probably farmhouse. C17 possibly with earlier origins, C18 addition
and C20 alterations. Rendered cob walls. Thatched roof, gabled to left end, hipped
to front of wing. Brick axial stack offset from ridge of left-hand range.
Plan: originally likely to have had 3-room and through passage plan with hall stack
backing onto passage - which it is possible may have been inserted into an open hall
judging from the way it is offset from the ridge. Wing added at front of right-hand
end probably in C18. Original partitions removed in C20 - possibly when the
building was converted to an inn.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical L-shaped front with 3 windows to each range of
mainly C20 2 and 3-light casements, some with leaded panes. Single light C20 window
to left on ground floor with no glazing bars. To its right is C20 glazed door with
tall small-paned C20 window beyond it. Wing projects to right with late C19 4-pane
sash window at its higher end on first floor. Below it is C20 glazed door under
leanto doorhood with another part-glazed door to right of centre.
Interior: one C17 chamfered ceiling beam visible on ground floor, other early
features may be concealed by later modernisation and it is possible that early roof
timbers survive.
Listing NGR: SS6583701772
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92993
- 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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