Middle Ball
MIDDLE BALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288125
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Ball
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLE BALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288125
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Ball
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDDLE BALL
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:
- MIDDLE BALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Twitchen
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 78286 31625
Details
TWITCHEN SS 73 SE 11/209 Middle Ball - II Shown on O.S. map as Middle Twitchen Ball. Farmhouse, now house. Mid-C19, with probably late C19 outshut to rear. Uncoursed stone rubble with some red-brick dressings. Gable-ended asbestos-slate roof. Stone stacks with brick tops. Plan: Two-room plan with roughly-central entrance and external end stacks. Facing south-east. Larger principal room to left and smaller room (present kitchen) to right. Staircase between rooms, rising from entrance lobby. Outshut added to rear (see straight joints), probably a late C19 addition. Small low outhouses flanking front of house. Two storeys (including outshut) and one-storey outhouses. Exterior: Asymmetrical 3-bay front; C19 two-light wooden casements with brick segmental heads (left-hand ground-floor window is a late C20 replacement). Roughly- central C20 half-glazed door with brick segmental head. Right-hand end of outshut with C19 two-light wooden casements to each floor. Interior: Largely complete mid-C19 fixtures and fittings. Left-hand ground floor room has open fireplace, and L-shaped wooded bench along front and left-hand walls. Blocked fireplace in right-hand ground-floor room. Stone-flagged floors and old boarded doors throughout. First-floor rooms not inspected. This is a good example of a mid-C19 farmhouse, which now rarely survive in such an unaltered state.
Listing NGR: SS7828631625
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400611
- 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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