Ram's Head Inn
RAM'S HEAD INN, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333075
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ram's Head Inn
- Statutory Address:
- RAM'S HEAD INN, SOUTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333075
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ram's Head Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAM'S HEAD INN, SOUTH 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:
- RAM'S HEAD INN, SOUTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dolton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS5710812110
Details
DOLTON
SOUTH STREET (north side), Dolton
SS 5712
14/81
Ram's Head Inn
GV
II
Inn. Probably early C19 remodelling and extension of C17 building. Plastered cob
and rubble walls. Gable-ended asbestos slate roof. 4-brick stacks. 2 axial and
one at each gable end.
Plan: original plan not entirely clear but may have been a pair of 2-room plan
houses each with central porch and entry, subsequently converted into inn and
extended at the right-hand end in the early C19.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Long asymmetrical 8-window front with shallow 2 storey
porches to left and right of centre with C20 blockwood door to left-hand one and
early C19 6-panel door to the other. Both have small-paned C19 2-light casements
above. C20 3-light casement to left on each floor with 4-light casement to centre
on ground floor with large late C20 small pane casement to its left. 3 early C19
sash windows above with late C19 8-pane sash below the right-hand one. The right-
hand end of the front projects with an early and late C19 12-pane sash on the 1st
floor and a C20 plank door below with single light casement to its right.
Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS5710812110
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90874
- 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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