2, 3 AND 4, CHURCH LANE
2, 3 AND 4, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325302
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 2, 3 AND 4, CHURCH LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 2, 3 AND 4, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325302
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 2, 3 AND 4, CHURCH LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, 3 AND 4, CHURCH LANE
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:
- 2, 3 AND 4, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swimbridge
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 62089 29955
Details
SWIMBRIDGE CHURCH LANE, Swimbridge SS 62 NW 11/188 Nos. 2, 3 and 4 Church Lane
GV II
Row of 3 houses, late C15 or early C16 origins, remodelled and extended in C17 and with C20 alterations. Painted rendered stone and cob. Slate roofs with gable ends. Brick stacks to each end of each house and tall lateral rubble stack with drip to front of No.3 and truncated lateral stack to No.4. Complex sequence of plan development. No. 3 appears to contain the hall, through-passage and part of lower end of a typical C17 farmhouse type, with blocked doorways to the upper end of the hall indicating that No.2 probably formed the inner room of the farmhouse, later extended and remodelled into a separate cottage. It is said that No.4 was used within living memory as a shippon and store-shed, fitting well with the overall position as the lower end of the C17 farmhouse. But the roof structure of No.4, which extends as far as the solid cob partition to roof height at the lower end of the through-passage in No.3 in fact illustrates that this formed part of an open-hall house, so that the sequence of development appears to be from right to left with C17 remodelling to the hall and C18 and C19 extension to the inner room. 2 storeys. 7 window range of 2-light casements, 2 panes per light, the left-hand bay breaks forward slightly. Interior: stop-chamfered beams and most of the original joists survive to hall. 2 raised cruck trusses over No.4 with 2 tiers of threaded purlins and ridge purlin and cranked collars morticed into soffits of the blades, the thorough smoke blackening extending to the, cob-wall partition over the lower end of the through- passage and also fading out to the extreme lower end bay with the truss closest to the right gable end being soot-encrusted on the one face and virtually clean on the other. The truss over the hall reflects the C17 remodelling and has straight heavy principals with a lap-jointed collar.
Listing NGR: SS6208129951
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98671
- 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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