Remains of Bishops Palace at Palace Farmhouse
REMAINS OF BISHOPS PALACE AT PALACE FARMHOUSE, ROCK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317585
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Bishops Palace at Palace Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF BISHOPS PALACE AT PALACE FARMHOUSE, ROCK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317585
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Bishops Palace at Palace Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF BISHOPS PALACE AT PALACE FARMHOUSE, ROCK ROAD
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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:
- REMAINS OF BISHOPS PALACE AT PALACE FARMHOUSE, ROCK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chudleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 86572 78872
Details
CHUDLEIGH ROCK ROAD, Chudleigh SX 87 NE 4/78 Remains of Bishops Palace at Palace Farm 23.8.55
GV II*
Remains of Bishop's Palace. Medieval. Local grey limestone rubble, partly roofed over with corrugated iron on trusses with a 1950's date. The scheduled site suggests extensive remains below ground. The most substantial remains above ground consist of a partly 2-storey block incorporating walling which continues as the west boundary wall of the garden in front of Palace Farm. The plan of this block includes, at ground floor level, 2 vaults, 1 with a rounded and 1 with a pointed arch. At the north end these vaults are completed by a section of wall (probably at one time external) with a well-finished plinth that rises at the west end. The wall has a blocked, deeply-splayed arched window and the remnants of a stone newel stair. To the north of this wall and parallel to it, a second section of wall extends as re garden boundary wall, and contains several deeply splayed slit windows, mostly blocked. The relationship between the surviving remains above ground and what may be below ground remains conjectural. The Bishop of Exeter had selected a site in Chudleigh for a rural palace as early as 1080 and the "See's ownership is confirmed some hundred years later in an undated charter of Bishop Bartholomew (1165 -1184)" (Crockett). In 1550 Bishop Veysey was obliged to alienate the properties and rights pertaining to Chudleigh which were dispersed into secular ownership. The building above ground is clearly part of a site of major historical and archaeological interest.
Listing NGR: SX8657278872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85335
- 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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