Ram's Head Inn, Dolton
Description: Ram's Head Inn
Grade: II
Date Listed: 10 March 1988
English Heritage Building ID: 90874
OS Grid Reference: SS5711212106
OS Grid Coordinates: 257112, 112106
Latitude/Longitude: 50.8907, -4.0329
Location: South Street, Dolton, Devon EX19 8QS
Locality: Dolton
Local Authority: Torridge
County: Devon
Country: England
Postcode: EX19 8QS
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Listing Text
DOLTON SOUTH STREET (north side), Dolton
SS 5712
14/81 Ram's Head Inn
GV II
Inn. Probably early C19 remodelling and extension of C17 building. Plastered cob
and rubble walls. Gable-ended asbestos slate roof. 4-brick stacks. 2 axial and
one at each gable end.
Plan: original plan not entirely clear but may have been a pair of 2-room plan
houses each with central porch and entry, subsequently converted into inn and
extended at the right-hand end in the early C19.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Long asymmetrical 8-window front with shallow 2 storey
porches to left and right of centre with C20 blockwood door to left-hand one and
early C19 6-panel door to the other. Both have small-paned C19 2-light casements
above. C20 3-light casement to left on each floor with 4-light casement to centre
on ground floor with large late C20 small pane casement to its left. 3 early C19
sash windows above with late C19 8-pane sash below the right-hand one. The right-
hand end of the front projects with an early and late C19 12-pane sash on the 1st
floor and a C20 plank door below with single light casement to its right.
Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS5711212106
Source: English Heritage
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