COCKPIT ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF THE ARUNDELL ARMS

COCKPIT ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF THE ARUNDELL ARMS, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1326295
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: COCKPIT ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF THE ARUNDELL ARMS
Statutory Address:: COCKPIT ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF THE ARUNDELL ARMS, FORE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1326295
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: COCKPIT ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF THE ARUNDELL ARMS
Statutory Address 1:: COCKPIT ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF THE ARUNDELL ARMS, FORE STREET

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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Location

Statutory Address:: COCKPIT ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF THE ARUNDELL ARMS, FORE STREET

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

County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Lifton
National Grid Reference:: SX 38603 85137

Details

SX 38 NE LIFTON FORE STREET, Lifton

2/136 Cockpit about 8m north of the - Arundell Arms

GV II

Cockpit, now in use as rod and tackle room. Probably C18 with late C20 alterations. Stone rubble with steeply-pitched pyramidal wooden shingle roof, formerly thatched. Octagonal cockpit with gabled entrance with C20 door below chamfered 1-light segmental pointed window. A second entrance, filling most of one side, has been converted into a 2-light fixed window above a plank panel. Weathervane at apex of roof. Interior A raised earth octagonal platform in the centre is said to be the original fighting pit. The roof timbers and thatch were replaced in the circa 1970s. An indated photograph ofthe building when thatched shows double timber doors in place of the present window. Cock-fighting remained popular into the C19 and although legislation to abolish animal- baiting was passed in 1835 there are records of illegal baits in the 1850s.

Listing NGR: SX3862585117

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Legacy System number:: 92380
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.