Higher Chuggaton
HIGHER CHUGGATON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317297
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Chuggaton
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER CHUGGATON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317297
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Chuggaton
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER CHUGGATON
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:
- HIGHER CHUGGATON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chittlehampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 61111 26957
Details
SWIMBRIDGE SS 62 NW 11/170 Higher Chuggaton
II
House. Probably early C16, extended and remodelled in C17, with cottage ornee additions in C19. Rendered stone and cob, rebuilt at right gable end of thatch roof and axial stone stack backing onto former through-passage at left end. Former open hall house, with hall and inner room to right of through-passage, now with window inserted in blocked front through-passage doorway. Probably in early C17 the hall was floored over and a right-angled 2-storey extension added to rear right end forming overall L-shaped plan. In C19 a narrow gabled 2-storey porch was added to the east side of this rear extension, and the lower end of the house apparently demolished, with heavy buttressing to the end wall of the through-passage beneath a cottage ornee thatched verandah, the main entry being resited to this left gable end. 2 storeys. 3 window range of 2-light casements, 8 panes per light. Small pantiled lean-to to blocked through-passage doorway to left and 2-light casement, 8 panes per light to right of French windows. Interior: scratch-moulded joists to narrow hall, large stop-chamfered beam to rear extension with original joists. Much of the old joinery survives to the upstairs rooms, including scroll-stopped durns to chamber doorway over through-passage. Roof structure largely intact with solid cob partition between hall and inner room rising to apex of roof and dividing roofs space into 2 parts. Close to the inserted axial stack is a raised cruck truss with only one of the feet visible. Heavy smoke blackening to rafters, thatch, purlins and truss extends to lower end of through-passage. The cob partition and gable end wall carry the purlins over the inner room, where the roof timbers are clean. Single raised cruck truss to C17 extension butting onto the inner room end, with lap-joined collar trenched purlins and rafters intact, again no sign of smoke-blackening.
Listing NGR: SS6111126957
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98652
- 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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