Rock House the Rock
ROCK HOUSE THE ROCK, 77, PILTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385285
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Rock House the Rock
- Statutory Address:
- ROCK HOUSE THE ROCK, 77, PILTON STREET
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- Date:
- 2004-07-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/12628/22
- Rights:
- © Dr Barbara Hilton. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385285
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Rock House the Rock
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROCK HOUSE THE ROCK, 77, PILTON STREET
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:
- ROCK HOUSE THE ROCK, 77, PILTON STREET
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 55707 34106
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5534SE PILTON STREET, Pilton
684-1/2/362 (East side)
31/12/73 No.77
Rock House, The Rock
(Formerly Listed as:
PILTON STREET, Pilton
(East side)
No.77)
GV II
House. 1798 rebuilding by William Davy of an earlier core.
Front wall painted Flemish bond brick, rear and end walls cob;
slate roof, gabled at ends; stone rear lateral stack with
set-offs with rendered shafts. Single-depth plan and lateral
stack suggests 3-room and passage arrangement with hall to
left of centre, 1798 rebuild preserves similar layout with
straight stair rising from a wide entrance passage.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical but regular 4-bay front with delicate
dentil cornice. C20 half-glazed door to right of centre with
plain porch hood of an C18 character. 3 ground- and 4
first-floor 16-pane timber sash windows, the left-hand bay
windows with horns. Rear elevation has 3 late C20 buttresses.
INTERIOR: altered during repairs of 1983 with some replacement
of joinery and stair rebuilt. Lateral stack fireplace,
revealed in 1983 was large with charred lintel (information
from the owners).
HISTORICAL NOTE: stair timber found during 1983 renovations
inscribed "William Davy built this house and laid me here,
1798." Documents in the possession of the owners indicate that
the house was in the ownership of Pilton Abbey and was
acquired by the Rolle family.
Listing NGR: SS5570934107
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485747
- 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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