Lower Upcott
LOWER UPCOTT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334235
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Upcott
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER UPCOTT
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05757/13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334235
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Upcott
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER UPCOTT
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:
- LOWER UPCOTT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chudleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 88549 80355
Details
CHUDLEIGH SX 88 SE 1/23 Lower Upcott 23.8.55 II
Farmhouse. Circa early C18. Local grey limestone rubble, rendered and colourwashed to the front elevation; projecting end stacks; asbestos slate roof (described as "formerly thatched" in list description of 1952), gabled at ends. Double depth rectangular plan, 2 rooms wide with heated rooms at the front, probably on either side of a central passage with the stair in a rear turret and rear left and right service rooms under catslide roofs. C20 single storey addition or rebuilding at the rear right at right angles to the main range. 2-storeys. Symmetrical 5-window front with a central gable and a central half-glazed C20 porch. 16-pane sashes without horns to the first floor, 12-pane to the ground floor, 2-light casement in front gable. The rear elevation has a 2-storey gabled projection (probably stair turret), the rear wall flush with the rear walls of the outshuts. Interior not inspected, but features of interest may survive, including the possibility of a good staircase. The house is described in White's Directory of 1879 as having been built "about 150 years ago". It was the birthplace of the geographer Major James Rennell, born 1742.
White's Devon (1879)
Listing NGR: SX8854980355
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85276
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whites Directory in Whites Directory, (1879)
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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