Description

BRIXHAM

SX85NE ALSTON LANE, Churston Ferrers
1946-1/1/37 (North West side)
Cattle yard and buildings approx.
80m north-east of Alston Farmhouse

GV II

Cattle yard and buildings. Mid and late C19. Stone rubble.
Hipped slated roof. Rectangular yard enclosed by wall at front
and left sides. Cattle sheds at rear and left sides. Entrance
at front adjoining right-hand building; corresponding entrance
at rear, between the 2 buildings. Single-storeyed buildings,
that to rear with loft. Rear building has 3 doorways with
slightly curved arches having stone voussoirs; plank doors
with strap-hinges. 2 small windows with flat stone lintels. 1
plank door to loft. Right-hand building has 3 doorways with
round and segmental red-brick arches. Stone rubble enclosing
walls with rounded gate piers; all with alternately short and
tall coping stones. Rear gate has rounded pier of same type to
right. Together with Alston Farmhouse and its main yard (qv)
this makes a good farmyard group.

Listing NGR: SX8995455516

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489789

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings