Merrymeet
MERRYMEET, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309450
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Merrymeet
- Statutory Address:
- MERRYMEET, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309450
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Merrymeet
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERRYMEET, CHURCH 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:
- MERRYMEET, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dolton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 57012 12059
Details
DOLTON CHURCH STREET, Dolton SS 5712 14/65 Merrymeet 21.2.77 GV II House. Early - mid C17 possibly with earlier origins probably with Cl8 addition. Rendered cob walls. Gable-ended thatch roof. 3 gable-end projecting rendered rubble stacks with brick shafts. Plan: L-shaped plan, the original range is probably that with 2 heated rooms and the wing projecting from the right-hand one may be a C18 addition, possibly as a kitchen. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front to main range of early C19 16- pane sashes. C20 part-glazed door to left and right, the right-hand one is behind a glass leanto porch. Wing projecting from right-hand end has late C19 4-pane sash on 1st floor and late C20 bow window below. All the 1st floor windows have gables in the thatch above with C19 decorative barge-boards and finials. C19 outbuilding projecting from end of wing. Interior: inaccessible at time of survey but likely to contain C17 features such as fireplaces and ceiling beams and possibly good quality C19 joinery. The roof structure may also be of interest.
Listing NGR: SS5701212059
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90858
- 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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