Wisteria
WISTERIA, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097421
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Wisteria
- Statutory Address:
- WISTERIA, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097421
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Wisteria
- Statutory Address 1:
- WISTERIA, CHURCH ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WISTERIA, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hennock
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 83034 80959
Details
SX 8380 HENNOCK CHURCH ROAD (east side), Hennock 10/124 Wisteria - 23.8.55 GV II
House. Late C16 or C17, with later additions. Stone rubble; upper storey of front roughcast. Projecting bay in ground storey rendered. Slated roof with clay ridge- tiles; projecting bay has low-pitch corrugated-iron roof. Red-brick chimney stack on left-hand gable; rendered stack on rear gable of rear wing. L-shaped plan, the front range having 2 ground-storey rooms with through-passage between them, while the rear wing has 1 room probably an added kitchen. Lean-to, probably added, behind right-hand side of front range. 2 storeys. 3-window front. Doorway, slightly off- centre to right, has ovolo-moulded wood lintel (probably a re-used timber). Door, deeply recessed, has bead-moulded frame; 3 flush panels at the bottom of door, 4 sunk panels above, the top 2 now glazed. Decorated cast-iron knocker. To right of doorway a deeply projecting, single-storeyed bay, probably a C19 addition, finished with wooden frieze and cornice; 1 window in front and 1 in left-hand side-wall, both having 2-paned wood sashes with horns. To left of doorway is a 2-light casement window, probably C20, under a plain wood lintel; each light has 3 panes. Second- storey windows all have C19 3-light wood casements, the centre light of each window opening on external strap-hinges; the 2 left-hand windows have the remains of square leaded panes. Yard at rear has old cobbled surface. Interior: in ground storey left-hand front room has a chamfered full beam and, against the left-hand gable, a chamfered half-beam, both with step-stops. Large fireplace in left-hand gable has chamfered wood lintel with step-stops; in left-hand side of it is a cloam oven, reconstituted from broken fragments, with its original cloam door intact. Right hand front room has small gable fireplace with segmental brick arch. Room in rear wing has, in rear gable, a large fireplace with plain wood lintel; late C19 over at the back. Roof of rear wing has plain principal rafters with collars pegged to the faces of the trusses; roof of front range, seen from a distance, looks similar. The house forms a good group with Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Wistaria Cottages (q.v.) which abut it on the north, and also with Longlands (q.v.) opposite.
Listing NGR: SX8303480959
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 84571
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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