Pill House
PILL HOUSE, PILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1385256
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Pill House
- Statutory Address:
- PILL HOUSE, PILL LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1385256
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Pill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PILL HOUSE, PILL 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:
- PILL HOUSE, PILL 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 56293 31617
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS53SE PILL LANE, Rumsam
684-1/1/394 (South side)
19/01/51 Pill House
II*
Large house, divided into flats. c1700, perhaps with an
earlier core. Plastered stone rubble; slate roof with lead
rolls, hipped at ends; stacks with old brick shafts.
Main range has asymmetrically-placed entrance suggesting
possible earlier core, rear right wing may have been service
wing containing kitchen.
2 storeys and attic. Deep eaves with eaves board; platband at
first floor level. Slightly asymmetrical but regular 7-window
front with main entrance to left of centre with pilastered
doorcase with fluted pilasters and 6-panel door with fielded
panels. Semicircular porch hood on carved, scrolled brackets.
12-pane sash windows without horns to the front, except the 2
ground-floor windows to right of the entrance which are 6 over
9 panes. 4 probably c1700 attic windows with pedimented gables
and slate-hung sides; glazed with 2-light casements, 8 panes
per light. The right return has a slate-roofed single-storey
lean-to across the front.
INTERIOR: partially inspected. Main range has stick baluster
stair of c1830 and the stair hall retains some moulded plaster
cornice. Features of interest may survive elsewhere.
Listing NGR: SS5629331617
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485718
- 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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