Whitleigh Barn
WHITLEIGH BARN, LANCASTER GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322014
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Whitleigh Barn
- Statutory Address:
- WHITLEIGH BARN, LANCASTER GARDENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322014
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Whitleigh Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITLEIGH BARN, LANCASTER GARDENS
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:
- WHITLEIGH BARN, LANCASTER GARDENS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 47532 59804
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX45NE LANCASTER GARDENS, Whiteleigh 740-1/5/868 (North side) 19/07/83 Whitleigh Barn (Formerly Listed as: LANCASTER GARDENS, Plymouth Whitleigh Barn)
II
Former bank barn. C16 or C17 with some C19 accretions. Slatestone rubble with granite dressings; dry slate roofs, the main part stepped up to the right and with hip on right; cast-iron ogee gutters. Rectangular plan plus large porch to centre of front and later lean-to at far right of front plus lean-to at rear opposite. EXTERIOR: single storey but floored probably in the C18 or early C19 when extra windows with segmental rubble arches were inserted to rear. Front has large central porch with large original round-arched doorway with ball stops; later window above; original outshut with small window to right of porch, later outshut to left; 3 buttresses to main barn front left of porch; window and altered doorway right of porch. Right-hand return has large loading doorway from bank, now blocked. Left hand return is buttressed and has enlarged central window over window. Buttressed rear has 2 original chamfered slit ventilators, now blocked. INTERIOR: has C20 partitions; roof structure not inspected but may be of interest. A very early surviving farm building in this region, converted from a conventional threshing barn into a bank barn in the late C18/early C19.
Listing NGR: SX4753259804
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473555
- 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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