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Hopbiness Including Rear Cob Boundary Walls to East and West

A Grade II Listed Building in Lapford, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.8671 / 50°52'1"N

Longitude: -3.7829 / 3°46'58"W

OS Eastings: 274631

OS Northings: 109030

OS Grid: SS746090

Mapcode National: GBR L3.TPGV

Mapcode Global: FRA 26ZT.01V

Plus Code: 9C2RV688+VR

Entry Name: Hopbiness Including Rear Cob Boundary Walls to East and West

Listing Date: 4 November 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1263438

English Heritage Legacy ID: 432279

ID on this website: 101263438

Location: Eastington, Mid Devon, EX17

County: Devon

District: Mid Devon

Civil Parish: Lapford

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Lapford

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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Description


LAPFORD EASTINGTON
SS 70 NW
4/75
- Hopbines including rear cob
boundary walls to east and west
- II

House. Probably early C19, enlarged circa 1970. Plastered rubble; rubble stacks
with C19 and C20 thick brick chimney shafts; thatched roof. Main block facing south
has double depth plan with one front and one rear room on either side of central
entrance hall. C20 extension at right angles to rear of right (east). Front rooms
served by end stacks and large rear lateral kitchen stack to rear left. 2 storeys.
2-window front in which original symmetrical fenestration appears to have been
renewed in mid or late C19 with tall 12-pane sashes, and ground floor right has C20
canted bay window without glazing bars. Exaggerated eyebrows in thatched eaves over
first floor windows and another in centre. Central plank door with overlight and
plain flat hood. Roof with unusually steep pitch is hipped each end and is flanked
by tall chimney shafts. Left (west) front has late C19 French windows with glazing
bars and triangular headed top lights containing geometric patterns of leaded glass
towards rear and above it a casement with arched head (sloping sides and flat top)
containing geometric pattern of leaded glass. Thatched gable over. Another similar
window in rear elevation. C20 extension has various windows with glazing bars and
thatched roof hipped to rear. From each side of rear block high plastered cob walls
on rubble footings with pitched pantile coping extend east and westwards along
roadside. Western boundary wall includes a crank-headed archway.
Interior not inspected.


Listing NGR: SS7463109030

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