The Who'd Have Thought IT Inn
THE WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT IT INN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318047
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Who'd Have Thought IT Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT IT INN
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04415/31
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318047
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Who'd Have Thought IT Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT IT INN
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:
- THE WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT IT INN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckland Monachorum
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 48885 66110
Details
BUCKLAND MONACHORUM MILTON COMBE SX 46 NE 3/86 The Who'd Have Thought It Inn - GV II
Inn formerly probably farmhouse. C17 with C19 and C20 additions. Rendered stone rubble walls. Gable ended grouted slate roof. 2 rubble stacks with slate dripcourse, one axial, one projecting from right-hand gable end. Originally 2-room-and-through-passage plan; larger left-hand room heated by axial stack backing onto passage, right-hand room heated by gable end stack. Rear wing of 1 heated room added behind left-hand room probably in C18. C19 lean-to at right- hand end converted to a bar. C19 and C20 rear extensions. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front of later C20 2 light casements with small panes in large window openings. C20 plank door to right of centre behind small probably C19 gabled porch. Single storey addition at right-hand end. Interior: Left-hand room has chamfered cross beam, stops indiscernible. Fireplace has cambered wooden lintel, chamfered with hollow step stops. Fireplace in right- hand room has stone arch, possibly a replacement.
Listing NGR: SX4888566110
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92689
- 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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