Lynecroft
LYNECROFT, 16, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325469
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Lynecroft
- Statutory Address:
- LYNECROFT, 16, WEST STREET
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- Date:
- 2005-04-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/13422/18
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325469
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Lynecroft
- Statutory Address 1:
- LYNECROFT, 16, WEST STREET
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:
- LYNECROFT, 16, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witheridge
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 80333 14478
Details
WITHERIDGE WEST STREET (north side) SS 81 SW Witheridge 9/108 No.16 (Lynecroft) - 20.2.67 GV II Cottage. Probably late C15 or early later C16, addition to right of C16, C19 and C20 refenestration. Rubble and cob, roughcast and colourwashed, hipped thatched roof. Plan and development: the cottage is the inner room of a 3-room and through-passage house and a later C16 addition to the right making it into a 2-room plan. Probably originally an open hall house. Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical 2 bays, first floor with 2 C19 casements with glazing bars. Further C19 casement on the ground floor. 2 C20 casements to right of ground floor, horizontal glazing bars. Inset door opening to extreme left, half- glazed door. Interior: 2 rooms on the ground floor, one with a chamfered lateral ceiling beam, the other room divided in half in the C20. The first floor is virtually featureless except there is a very good example of a hip cruck to be seen, it is not known if this is smoke-blackened or not. The hall and lower end of this house is occupied by the adjoining house to the left, No.18 (Plovers Barrows)(q.v.)
Listing NGR: SS8033314478
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97518
- 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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