Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333179
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Coombe
- Statutory Address:
- COOMBE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333179
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Coombe
- Statutory Address 1:
- COOMBE
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:
- COOMBE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Abbotsham
- National Grid Reference:
- SS4247127178
Details
ABBOTSHAM
SS42NW
2/9 Coombe (formerly
20.2.58 listed as Coombe
Manor House)
GV. II
House. Built 1616, for John Willett, woolstapler. Coursed
slatestone rubble; late C19 gabled slate roof; stone right end
stack with drip course; two stone lateral stacks with drip courses
to centre and left of front wall. 3-unit plan with entry to
former passage on right side of central hall. One storey and
attic; 4-window range. Two-storey gabled porch to right of centre
has C17 label mould over C20 two-light window above C17 chamfered
square-headed doorway: C17 studded and panelled door set in
moulded wood architrave with bar stop. Gabled dormers have
timber lintels over mid C19 twelve-pane sashes; C17 label moulds
(one to left of door has stops carved with initials EB) over late
C19 French window to left, and C20 three to 4-light mullioned and
transomed windows. Rear: mid C19 sashes and casements with
glazing bars; two early/mid C19 gabled 2-storey extensions of
similar materials with brick stacks, and doveholes in right gable
end. Interior: room to right (former service room) has chamfered
bressummer over open fireplace with cloam oven; room to centre
has open fireplace and chamfered door frame to room on left
(former parlour) which has fine early C17 plaster ceiling:
foliate frieze with moulded cornice; ceiling has strapwork
patterns, centred on flowers whose pointed leaves end in oak-leaf
and acorn decoration. Rear left wing has late C19 dog-leg
staircase with reset early C17 turned balusters. Feet of A-frame
trusses visible on first floor: central room has plasterwork
eschutcheon over fireplace, with strapwork patterns, vase of
flowers in centre and S-scrolls with reversed heads (similar to
those on bench ends of Abbotsham Church (q.v.)); fine mid C19
cast-iron grate. Roof not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS4247127178
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91326
- 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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