ASH HOUSE CIRCA 5 METRES EAST OF WISTON FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1325771
Date first listed:: 15-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: ASH HOUSE CIRCA 5 METRES EAST OF WISTON FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: ASH HOUSE CIRCA 5 METRES EAST OF WISTON FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1325771
Date first listed:: 15-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: ASH HOUSE CIRCA 5 METRES EAST OF WISTON FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ASH HOUSE CIRCA 5 METRES EAST OF WISTON FARMHOUSE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ASH HOUSE CIRCA 5 METRES EAST OF WISTON FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Knowstone
National Grid Reference:: SS 85196 22769

Details

KNOWSTONE SS 82 SE 4/22 Ash house circa 5 metres east of - Wiston Farmhouse GV II Ash-house. Probably C18. Unrendered cob on low stone rubble plinth. Slate roof with gable ends. The ash-house is virtually square on plan, with a central doorway with timber lintel on the west side, and allow raking hole with a peaked head cut through the plinth and base of the cob at the right gable end. Single storey, but of sufficient height to carry a low loft. The ash-house is situated in the north-east corner of the orchard to the front of Wiston farmhouse. The ash was stored primarily for use as a fertilizer for mangold crops for feeding sheep.

Listing NGR: SS8519622769

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 97373
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.