POWDER HOUSE AT COMBE MARTIN SILVER MINE

POWDER HOUSE AT COMBE MARTIN SILVER MINE, BOWHAY LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1350386
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-2003
List Entry Name:: POWDER HOUSE AT COMBE MARTIN SILVER MINE
Statutory Address:: POWDER HOUSE AT COMBE MARTIN SILVER MINE, BOWHAY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1350386
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-2003
List Entry Name:: POWDER HOUSE AT COMBE MARTIN SILVER MINE
Statutory Address 1:: POWDER HOUSE AT COMBE MARTIN SILVER MINE, BOWHAY LANE

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:: POWDER HOUSE AT COMBE MARTIN SILVER MINE, BOWHAY LANE

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

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Combe Martin
National Grid Reference:: SS5890746400

Details

COMBE MARTIN

1544/0/10010 BOWHAY LANE 23-JAN-03 Powder House at Combe Martin Silver Mine

GV II

Mine powder house. Built 1837. Stone rubble. Dry slate roof with gable ends. PLAN: Small single-cell rectangular building with entrance at north end. EXTERIOR: Single storey. Doorway on left of north gable end with timber lintel and plank door. Window at centre of west side with timber lintel and plank shutters. INTERIOR: Limewashed walls; open to reconstructed roof structure. Combe Martin Silver Mine is important historically as a documented Medieval mine.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 489955
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.