OLD COURTHOUSE YE OLD COURTHOUSE

OLD COURTHOUSE, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333534
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: OLD COURTHOUSE YE OLD COURTHOUSE
Statutory Address:: OLD COURTHOUSE, KING STREET

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Date:: 2003-09-02
Reference:: IOE01/10934/29
Rights:: © Micaela Basford. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333534
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: OLD COURTHOUSE YE OLD COURTHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: OLD COURTHOUSE, KING STREET
Statutory Address 2:: YE OLD COURTHOUSE, KING 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: OLD COURTHOUSE, KING STREET
Statutory Address:: YE OLD COURTHOUSE, KING STREET

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Colyton
National Grid Reference:: SY 24440 94002

Details

SY 2494 COLYTON KING STREET 24/171 (east side) COLYTON

Old Courthouse and Ye Old Courthouse GV II

Pair of houses reputedly formerly the courthouse. Circa C17, remodelled in C18. Plastered timber-frame range with thatched roof with hipped and gabled ends and heavy moulded and dentilled eaves cornice. Two storeys. Five bays. Tripartite sash windows with glazing bars. Two doorcases with fluted pilasters, panelled reveals and glazed and panelled doors. Right hand with entablature left hand with pedimented hood. Small late C19 shopfront at centre and glazed double doors. Brick ridge and end chimney stacks. Interior: Rear room has C18 fielded panelling. C18 dog-leg staircase with moulded balusters, panelled newels and fielded panel dado. Chimneypiece with festoons in the frieze and console brackets.

Listing NGR: SY2444094002

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Legacy System number:: 87848
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.