5 Drinking Troughs And 2 Shelters For Quarry Traffic Approximately 15 Metres North West Of Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Quarry infrastructure.
5 Drinking Troughs And 2 Shelters For Quarry Traffic Approximately 15 Metres North West Of Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lunar-newel-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Quarry infrastructure
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SS 53 SE 7/100
LANDKEY 5 drinking troughs and 2 shelters for quarry traffic approximately 15 metres north-west of Hill Farmhouse
II
Drinking troughs and shelters for quarry traffic. C19. Random stone rubble, forming retaining wall to steeply rising bank behind. Built towards brow of hill by roadside on the route connecting Venn quarries to the Barnstaple/South Molton Road. Series of 5 narrow drinking holes staggered down the slope of the hill with 2 deeper niches for shelter at right end. The drinking holes are narrow oblong openings in the retaining wall giving access to channelled stream, the uppermost hole has iron door, the lower ones have large stone lintels and sills with rounded backs. 2 basket arches to shelter entrances at lower end with rough stone voussoirs. 3 niches at ground level in outer wall of shelter at right end.
Listing NGR: SS5818731198
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