Bowens and Railings. Gatepiers and Outbuilding
BOWENS AND RAILINGS. GATEPIERS AND OUTBUILDING, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310016
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Bowens and Railings. Gatepiers and Outbuilding
- Statutory Address:
- BOWENS AND RAILINGS. GATEPIERS AND OUTBUILDING, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310016
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1965
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bowens and Railings. Gatepiers and Outbuilding
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOWENS AND RAILINGS. GATEPIERS AND OUTBUILDING, CHURCH STREET
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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:
- BOWENS AND RAILINGS. GATEPIERS AND OUTBUILDING, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Braunton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 48981 37030
Details
SS 4837-4937 BRAUNTON CHURCH STREET (east side) Braunton 11/79 Bowens and Railings. Gatepiers - and outbuilding. (Formerly listed 25.2.65 as Chapel Hill Farm)
- II
House, formerly farmhouse. Circa mid C19. Rubble stone with slate roof and cornice. Brick stacks to each gable end. 2 storeys with 2-storey outshut to rear. Symmetrical Plan. 2 large timber sashes 8 panes over 8 panes on each floor flanking smaller sash 6 panes over 6 panes over round-arched doorway with carved keystone and 6 panelled door with blocked fanlight. All windows have stone sills and all openings have painted stone lintels and. Lions heads in relief on guttering. Continuous facade plat-band of reset C15/C16 stonework, composed of roughly square blocks, 33 still with carvings but some badly weathered, decorated with various quatrefoil and foliated designs. Rubble wall extends from front left end of house with flat dressed stone capping then drops to low rubble wall each side of rubble gate piers as base for iron railings swept up at ends with spearheaded shafts interspersed with classical urn heads. Gatepiers have square dressed stone cappings and each has single block of carved reset C15/C16 stone near the base. Single leaf gate with iron spear-headed bars and dogbars. Outbuilding extending at right angles from right hand gable end now garage of rubble with scantle slate roof hipped to front on slated lean-to roof behind. Plank door of 2 leaves with small square niches in the flanking gate piers.
Listing NGR: SS4898437029
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98318
- 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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