Byre Approximately 20 Metres South-west of Lower Corndon Cottage
BYRE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF LOWER CORNDON COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308969
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Byre Approximately 20 Metres South-west of Lower Corndon Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BYRE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF LOWER CORNDON COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308969
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Byre Approximately 20 Metres South-west of Lower Corndon Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BYRE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF LOWER CORNDON COTTAGE
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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:
- BYRE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF LOWER CORNDON COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chagford
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX6920885317
Details
SX 68 NE CHAGFORD
3/49 Byre approximately 20 metres
- south-west of Lower Corndon Cottage
GV II
Byre. C17, reroofed in C20. Granite stone rubble with large roughly-dressed quoins;
corrugated iron roof (formerly thatch).
Plan and description: small byre with hayloft over and east gable-end front. This
contains 2 doorways, both containing plain C19 doors. Gable is clad with corrugated
iron which contains a C20 window. Hayloft loading hatch on right (north) side
towards the front. Roof is gable-ended.
Interior: the hayloft is carried on 2 neatly soffit-chamfered crossbeams resting on
granite corbels. Roof of C20 A-frame trusses but there is evidence of the original
roof. The foot of one raised cruck truss remains sitting on a granite corbel and the
other corbels remain.
For an agricultural building the surviving original carpentry is of unusually high
quality.
Listing NGR: SX6920885317
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94580
- 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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