Tor Royal Lodge
TOR ROYAL LODGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326398
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tor Royal Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- TOR ROYAL LODGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326398
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tor Royal Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOR ROYAL LODGE
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:
- TOR ROYAL LODGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dartmoor Forest
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX5994573168
Details
LYDFORD
SX 57 SE
14/28 Tor Royal Lodge
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GV II
Lodge to Tor Royal House (q.v). Circa early C19 with later C19 addition. Granite
rubble walls. Pyramidal slate and asbestos slate roof. Central axial granite
ashlar chimney stack.
Plan: 4 rooms arranged around central chimney stack, each originally with a corner
fireplace. The 2 front rooms are the larger principal rooms. Later C19 outshut
added at left-hand end.
Exterior: Single storey. Symmetrical 2 window front of 2 light C19 casements with
4-centred arched heads and intersecting glazing bars in head. Central doorway has
blocked 4-centred arch above. Remains of original doorhood with moulded cornice and
one original pilaster at the rear, renewed post at the front and a supporting wall
has been inserted under the left-hand side of the building with C20 glazed door on
its front wall. The other 2 elevations retain their C19 arched-head casements.
Interior: Principal room has Victorian arched grate to chimneypiece in corner and a
built-in settle facing it.
Listing NGR: SX5994573168
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92761
- 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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