The Three Pigeons

THE THREE PIGEONS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1366222
Date first listed:
25-Feb-1965
List Entry Name:
The Three Pigeons
Statutory Address:
THE THREE PIGEONS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1366222
Date first listed:
25-Feb-1965
List Entry Name:
The Three Pigeons
Statutory Address 1:
THE THREE PIGEONS

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE THREE PIGEONS

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

County:
Devon
District:
North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Bishop's Tawton
National Grid Reference:
SS 56718 29978

Details

SS 52 NE
10/31
25.2.65

BISHOPS TAWTON
BISHOPS TAWTON
The Three Pigeons

GV
II

Public house. C17 with C18/C19 alterations. Rendered stone and cob. Slate roof
with brick stacks to each end and ridge stack. Single room deep. 2 storey, 4-
window range of C19 to C20 2-light casements, 2 with 6 panes per light to left, 9
panes per light over doorway and 6 small panes per light to right end. Shallow
Tuscan porch to off-centre doorway with plank door with cover strips. Doorway at
left end to left of 2-light casements, 12-panes per light. Large canted bay window
to rear with hipped slate roof, 9-paned sidelights and 24-panes to centre light.
Single C17 roughly hewn truss with threaded purlins partly intact, otherwise roof
structure entirely replaced in C20.

Listing NGR: SS5671829978

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
98509
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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