Close Court and the Close and Attached Garden Wall
CLOSE COURT AND THE CLOSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, EDDYS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385128
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Close Court and the Close and Attached Garden Wall
- Statutory Address:
- CLOSE COURT AND THE CLOSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, EDDYS LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385128
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Close Court and the Close and Attached Garden Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOSE COURT AND THE CLOSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, EDDYS LANE
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:
- CLOSE COURT AND THE CLOSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, EDDYS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 56653 32155
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5632 EDDY'S LANE, Newport
684-1/5/264 (West side)
13/06/73 Close Court and The Close and
attached garden wall
(Formerly Listed as:
EDDY'S LANE, Newport
The Close)
II
House, divided into two, and garden wall to right. c1800
remodelling of an earlier building. Rendered; partly cob with
some stone rubble, slate roof, gabled at ends of main range;
stacks with brick shafts with corbelled cornices and some old
terracotta chimney pots; crested ridge-tiles. Double-depth
plan, main range 3 rooms wide with a cross passage to right of
centre (in The Close) with the stair rising to rear of the
passage. Both ends of the house have been extended under lower
roofs, the right end extension is service rooms to The Close.
The left-hand room is now a separate house (Close Court),
extended into a lower-roofed range to the left.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3:1-window range to Eddy's Lane. Main
roof gable-ended; 2-storey addition to right has lower hipped
roof, lean-to addition at right end. Small front projection to
The Close with lean-to porch with entrance on the right
return. 2 ground-floor 12-pane sashes plus one sash to the
hipped section. 3 first-floor 12-pane sashes. Large 8 over
12-pane stair sash. Close Court has a 6-panel door with C20
gabled porch hoods.
INTERIOR: The Close retains C19 joinery. 2 left-hand rooms
divided by segmental-headed archway. Good stick baluster stair
with ramped, wreathed handrail.
Roof: tie beam trusses, principal rafters halved at the apex,
probably late C18/early C19 in date. Brick stacks appear to be
cut into the cob walls. Close Court not inspected.
House said to have been called Manor Pound at one time.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: garden wall to the right is rendered with
a 2-centred arched doorway into the garden.
Listing NGR: SS5665332155
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485590
- 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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