STABLES TO THE NORTH OF ENDSLEIGH HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1165172
Date first listed:: 05-Oct-1982
List Entry Name:: STABLES TO THE NORTH OF ENDSLEIGH HOUSE
Statutory Address:: STABLES TO THE NORTH OF ENDSLEIGH HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1165172
Date first listed:: 05-Oct-1982
List Entry Name:: STABLES TO THE NORTH OF ENDSLEIGH HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STABLES TO THE NORTH OF ENDSLEIGH HOUSE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: STABLES TO THE NORTH OF ENDSLEIGH HOUSE

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County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Milton Abbot
National Grid Reference:: SX 39102 78633

Details

SX 37 NE 9/219 6.10.82

MILTON ABBOT ENDSLEIGH Stables to the north of Endsleigh House

GI Stables.Designed in circa 1810 by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville for the 6th Duke of Bedford.Stone rubble brought to course with hipped slate roofs.Approximately U-plan,built against the slope of the land to the north and consisting of three ranges round a pitched stone courtyard.The south range faces Endsleigh House(qv)across a forecourt.One storey and attics.Deep eaves,casement windows with timber mullions and transoms in chamfered stone openings,the doorway and window to the grooms'accommodation have segmental arches with keystone.Full dormers with hipped roofs.The south side of the south range is symmetrical with a plinth and a massive central coach entrance under a separate hipped roof carried on chamfered stone cheeks with a chamfered lintel with mason's mitres.Timber spandrels with Gothic cusping form a triangular arch on the north and south sides of the coach entrance.A clock turret on the ridge has louvred sides,four diagonally-set clock faces and a hipped slate roof crowned by a weathervane.The south side of the range has six large entrances.The west range has one entrance with windows on either side.The east range,partly used for accommodation has diagonally set chimney shafts and two entrances.On the east side it is built into the slope of the land at the north allowing direct access to the first floor.A two-bay gabled projection at the south end has a half-hipped roof.On the north side of the courtyard,opposite the coach entrance is a fountain set in a round-headed alcove in a tall battered stone surround terminating in a cornice.A stone trough is set in front of the alcove,and above the alcove is an inscription panel:"Endsleigh Cottage was built and a residence created in this sequestered valley by John Duke of Bedford the spot having been previously chosen from the natural and picturesque beauties which surround it by Georgiana,Duchess of Bedford.The first stone of the building was laid by her four eldest sons Wriothesley Edward,Charles, James Fox and ... September 7 1810"(parts illegible).Hussey suggests that the Duchess of Bedford was the driving force behind the creation of Endsleigh House.Christopher Hussey,Country Life,CXXX, 246;CXXX, 296.

Listing NGR: SX3910278633

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in 10 August, , Vol. 130, (1961), 296
'Country Life' in 3 August, , Vol. 130, (1961), 246
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.