Cooling's Barn
COOLING'S BARN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324904
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Cooling's Barn
- Statutory Address:
- COOLING'S BARN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324904
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Cooling's Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- COOLING'S BARN
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:
- COOLING'S BARN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chivelstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 78122 36579
Details
CHIVELSTONE EAST PRAWLE SX 73 NE 9/15 Cooling's Barn
G. V. II
Converted barn incorporating adjoining cottage. Mid C17 and C18, altered late C20. Slatestone rubble walls. Slate roof, hipped to left, gabled to front wing. Stone rubble gable end stack with dripcourses. Plan: originated apparently as 1-room plan cottage with fireplace on front end wall and newel stairs in projection on side wall. C18 threshing barn forming main range added at right-angles behind barn. A conversion and renovation is currently taking place (March 1989). Exterior: 2 storeys. L-shaped front with barn forming main range which has a leanto along the front. Small window openings with late C20 2-light casements without glazing bars to cottage forming wing at right-hand end. Doorway to barn at right of centre. End entrance to cottage through right-hand end of leanto. Outer side wall of cottage has a rectangular stair projection. Interior: the cottage has its original fireplace with a slate slab lintel. Stone newel staircase. Original roof truss survives consisting of straight principals with morticed apex, holes for threaded purlins, a very small collar set high up halved and dovetailed on and evidence of a similar cut-off collar lower down. The trusses themselves appear to have been reused as they have regularly spaced peg holes along them.
Listing NGR: SX7812236579
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100710
- 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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