Elm House and Number 5
ELM HOUSE AND NUMBER 5, 5, RACKENFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382743
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Elm House and Number 5
- Statutory Address:
- ELM HOUSE AND NUMBER 5, 5, RACKENFORD ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/16709/17
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382743
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-2000
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Nov-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Elm House and Number 5
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELM HOUSE AND NUMBER 5, 5, RACKENFORD ROAD
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:
- ELM HOUSE AND NUMBER 5, 5, RACKENFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tiverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 94795 13200
Details
848-1/5/31 RACKENFORD ROAD
10-APR-00 (East side)
Elm House and No.5
II
Detached house, now two dwellings. Mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Slated roof. Rendered chimney centrally placed on ridge of front (south) range.
PLAN: complex, probably resulting from 2 or more phases of, building. Small oblong block on south with short rear wing. Further small blocks project from thiS on the left and right sides, with 2 more blocks behind that.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Front block is 2 windows wide; wing (recessed} at either side, 2 windows to left, 1 to right. Windows have 6 or 8-paned sashes; triple-sashed window in ground storey of wing to right. Glazed verandah with patterned iron uprights across ground storey of front block.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: the house is not shown on the tithe map of 1842, but an Elm Cottage is included in the 1851 census return in close proximity to the Roman Catholic Chapel, the toll house and Loughborough. In 1861 the occupant was Stephen Fisher, cashier, with his wife, 5 children and 3 young female servants. He seems to have been a person of some standing. In 1871 one son was an undergraduate at Balllol College, Oxford, and another a medical student; In 1881 he was described as chief accountant at the lace factory.
No8, Higher Loughborough, which is attached to this building, is not included in this list entry.
Listing NGR: SS9479513200
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483128
- 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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