DEVON HOUSE FLATS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1097430
Date first listed:: 03-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: DEVON HOUSE FLATS
Statutory Address:: DEVON HOUSE FLATS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1097430
Date first listed:: 03-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: DEVON HOUSE FLATS
Statutory Address 1:: DEVON HOUSE FLATS

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:: DEVON HOUSE FLATS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Bovey Tracey
National Grid Reference:: SX 82281 78674

Details

BOVEY TRACEY BOVEY TRACEY SX 8278

12/39 Devon House Flats -

GV II

The Devon House of Mercy for the Reception of Fallen Women, now block of flats. 1865, by Henry Woodyer. Coursed granite rubble with dressings of Bath stone; the west face of the south-east wing has been rebuilt with artificial stone in the ground storey. Some yellow brick buildings, possibly later additions, at the western end. Slated roofs mostly tarred. Red brick chimney stacks with square shafts attached and bracketed caps composed of projecting brick courses. Austere High Victorian Gothic style. Consists of a long main range with cross-wings at either end of the north and south sides, forming an approximate H-plan. Storeyed entrance porch in centre of north side, large chapel wing at east end. At western end a collection of lower buildings, some single storeyed, the stone-built ones with rainwater heads dated 1865. 2 storeys with garrets, apart from the single storey buildings at the western end. The building has mostly plain stone-mullioned or mullioned-and-transomed windows with 2-centred heads to the lights, steeply pitched roofs with gabled dormers, some of which (especially on the north side) have wood casements with shouldered heads. A little carving round the window heads in the south-east wing. Much of the original glazing survives, with 2 or 3 panes per light, and also much old glass. Chapel radically altered, with C20 flat roof and fenestration. Buttresses survive and also the 3-sided east end; each of the 3 sides contains a triple lancet window (now blocked), although on the north-east side the lower part of the window has been replaced by a C20 one. Only a small part of interior inspected; a few chamfered, 2-centred arched stone doorways survive. Foundation stone laid in 1865 by the Earl of Devon, whose second son, the vicar of Bovey Tracey, appears to have played an important part in establishing the institution. It was run by the Clewer Sisterhood of Windsor; 72 inmates originally. Source: Morris's Directory for Devonshire, 1870, p.460. L Tregoning, Bovey Tracey, 1983, pp.39-40. C L Eastlake, Gothic Revival, 1872, pp.331-2.

Listing NGR: SX8228178674

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Legacy System number:: 84482
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Eastlake, C , History of the Gothic Revival, (1970), 331-332
Morris, , Directory for Devonshire, (1870), 460
Tregoning, L, Bovey Tracey, (1983), 39-40

Legal

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