Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309801
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Forches
- Statutory Address:
- FORCHES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309801
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Forches
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORCHES
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:
- FORCHES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Langtree
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 45365 14177
Details
LANGTREE SS 41 SE 4/16 - Forches - II
Small house. Circa early C18 with C20 addition. Rendered cob walls. Thatch roof gabled to right end hipped to left. Brick stack at right gable end, small brick shaft at left-hand end. Plan: 2-room plan with larger heated room to the right. C20 addition at left-hand end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Regular 3-window front facing away from road of late C20 PVC leaded pane casements, those on the 1st floor are half dormers. Similar glazed double door to right of centre under gabled slate doorhood. Early C20 single storey tile roof addition at left-hand end. C19 1 storey outbuilding lean-to against right-hand end with low door at the front. Interior: open fireplace at right-hand end - lintel obscured by mantelpiece.
Listing NGR: SS4536514177
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90990
- 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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