Description

SS 4837-4937 BRAUNTON CHURCH STREET (east side)
Braunton
11/79 Bowens and Railings. Gatepiers
- and outbuilding. (Formerly listed
25.2.65 as Chapel Hill Farm)

- II

House, formerly farmhouse. Circa mid C19. Rubble stone with slate roof and
cornice. Brick stacks to each gable end. 2 storeys with 2-storey outshut to rear.
Symmetrical Plan. 2 large timber sashes 8 panes over 8 panes on each floor
flanking smaller sash 6 panes over 6 panes over round-arched doorway with carved
keystone and 6 panelled door with blocked fanlight. All windows have stone sills
and all openings have painted stone lintels and. Lions heads in relief on
guttering. Continuous facade plat-band of reset C15/C16 stonework, composed of
roughly square blocks, 33 still with carvings but some badly weathered, decorated
with various quatrefoil and foliated designs. Rubble wall extends from front left
end of house with flat dressed stone capping then drops to low rubble wall each side
of rubble gate piers as base for iron railings swept up at ends with spearheaded
shafts interspersed with classical urn heads. Gatepiers have square dressed stone
cappings and each has single block of carved reset C15/C16 stone near the base.
Single leaf gate with iron spear-headed bars and dogbars. Outbuilding extending at
right angles from right hand gable end now garage of rubble with scantle slate roof
hipped to front on slated lean-to roof behind. Plank door of 2 leaves with small
square niches in the flanking gate piers.

Listing NGR: SS4898437029

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26596476

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)