1 AND 2, HIGH STREET
1 AND 2, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325880
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-08-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/04951/06
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325880
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2, HIGH 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:
- 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kentisbeare
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 06878 08162
Details
ST OO NE KENTISBEARE HIGH STREET, Kentisbeare 8/103 Nos 1 and 2 - GV II Pair of cottages. Possibly C17 or early C18, considerably altered in the C19. Roughcast cob and stone; gable end slate roof with red ridge tiles. The original plan is uncertain, but it may have been a 3-room, cross passage plan house, no. 2 (to the right) containing the passage and service end (heated by an end stack), no. 1 containing the hall (heated by an axial stack backing onto the passage) and inner room (heated by a rear lateral stack). All stacks of brick, the axial stack with some old (i.e. perhaps C18) brick. 2 storeys. Exterior Front: no. 2 is set back slightly (6"); now a 4 window range, although no. 2 had a blocked window (not visible externally); all 3-light C19 casement windows. Ground floor with 2 doorways, and four 3-light casement windows; the casements of no. 2 are early C19. Left hand end with one 3-light casement window to first floor, one of 2 lights below. Small ground-floor window to right-hand end. Rear with leanto (no. 2) and 2 storey, flat-roofed extension to no. 1; all C20 casement windows. Interior: No 1, the left hand room has a rear fireplace with stone jambs and a timber lintel with shallow chamfer, no. 2 with deeply chamfered axial ceiling beam. Nos 1 and 2 face nos 3 and 4 across High Street, and form an attractive group.
Listing NGR: ST0687108167
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95758
- 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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