South Town
SOUTH TOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1326452
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- South Town
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH TOWN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1326452
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- South Town
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH TOWN
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:
- SOUTH TOWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sampford Courtenay
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 63310 00839
Details
SAMPFORD SOURTENAY SAMPFORD COURTENAY SS 60 SW 11/183 South Town GV II*
House, originally farmhouse. Mid C17. Rendered cob and rubble walls. Gable ended thatch roof. 2 brick gable end stacks. Plan: unusual variation of 3-room and through passage plan with 2 principal heated rooms at either end and small unheated dairy at the centre with a short passage behind it. To the rear of the passage is a newel stair in a projection. Apart from a lengthening and rebuilding of the lower gable end wall and the removal of the partition between the left-end room and the dairy the plan remains very unaltered. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front of C19 small-paned 2, 3 and 4- light casements. C20 plank and part-glazed door to right of centre. All ground floor openings are original and have chamfered and stopped wooden lintels. At rear is rectangular stair projection to right of centre with original 3-light wooden mullion window. C20 wing to its right. Interior: screens passage with moulded edges to muntins, lower side screen is moulded on both sides higher side of screen chamfered on reverse. A similar screen to the lower one divides the small central room from the passage to its rear. The rignt-hand room has a chamfered cross beam with hollow step stops. The left-hand room has a fireplace with ovolo-moulded wooden lintel and rough granite jambs. It has chamfered ceiling beams and above the line of the former partition to the dairy the beam has mortices for a screen. The doorway to the stairs has an ovolo-moulded wooden frame and there is a similar doorframe at the head of the stairs. Roof: 2 original trusses survive consisting of face-pegged jointed crucks with large projecting octagonal-ended pegs. They are simply crossed at the apex with trenched purlins and dovetail-lapped collars. One is probably a closed truss and has a framed partition below it on the first floor. This is a very complete example of a mid C17 house with an interesting plan form and high quality features.
Listing NGR: SS6331000839
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 93066
- 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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