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PALM HOUSE INCLUDING GREENHOUSE TO SOUTH EAST AND TERRACE WALLS TO SOUTH WEST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1097548
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: PALM HOUSE INCLUDING GREENHOUSE TO SOUTH EAST AND TERRACE WALLS TO SOUTH WEST
Statutory Address:: PALM HOUSE INCLUDING GREENHOUSE TO SOUTH EAST AND TERRACE WALLS TO SOUTH WEST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1097548
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: PALM HOUSE INCLUDING GREENHOUSE TO SOUTH EAST AND TERRACE WALLS TO SOUTH WEST
Statutory Address 1:: PALM HOUSE INCLUDING GREENHOUSE TO SOUTH EAST AND TERRACE WALLS TO SOUTH WEST

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:: PALM HOUSE INCLUDING GREENHOUSE TO SOUTH EAST AND TERRACE WALLS TO SOUTH WEST

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Bicton
National Grid Reference:: SY 07240 85997

Details

BICTON BICTON PARK SY 08 NE 3/9 Palm House including greenhouse to - south-east and terrace walls to south-west. GV I Palm House, greenhouse and terrace walls. Circa 1820-5. Rear curtain walls are brick with limestone coping and plastered on the front, the terrace walls are local stone rubble topped with brick; the Palm House is cast iron framed with glass walls and roof; the greenhouse has brick and limestone ashlar sleeper walls with timber- framed superstructure and glass walls and roof. Domed Palm House faces south-west with main section projecting forward at right angles from rear wall. It has a rounded end. Either side are lower and shorter wings along the walls with quadrant walls and half-doomed roof against the rear curtain wall. To the right (south-east) the curtain wall continues to meet the back wall of the Orangery. It is interrupted by the gable end of a greenhouse. To left (north-west) the curtain wall extends a short distance before returning forward and containing an arch to the Pinetum beyond, then ramping down to ground level and serving as the curving retaining wall of the terrace in front of the Palm House. Behind the Palm House the wall rises in curves with steps between following the lines of the glass roofs. The Palm House itself has a cast iron frame. It has low outer walls and tall curving vaulted roof. The wall plate is a curving girder with a simple moulding and is supported on a series of rectangular-section iron posts. The walls have vertical timber glazing bars and there are glazed timber-framed doors at the ends of each side wing. The roof has cast iron glazing bars. There are no horizontal glazing bars; instead the hundreds of small glass panes have convex lower edges each overlapping the one below. Interior. In each of the side wings there are 2 tall and slender cast iron columns supporting the vault girders. They are circular in section with bulbous foliation on the bases and foliate caps. The top of the rear wall, behind the central dome, contains a series of louvred ventilators worked by chains. The only furniture is a single terracotta vase on a plain stucco pedestal and more line the path outside. The gable end of the greenhouse to right of the Palm House has limestone ashlar sleeper walls flanked by corner piers with soffit moulded caps. The central double doors (panelled bottom and glazed top) at the head of a flight of steps flanked by low rendered retaining walls. On the top of each are cast iron statues of sitting dogs (probably C20). The glass walls have glazing bars and the upper lights have elliptical heads. The Palm House is stunningly beautiful and most impressive but also a very early example of an iron-framed glass house. Furthermore it is set in the finest landscaped gardens in Devon and forms part of an attractive group of buildings with the Orangery (q.v.), the features of the ItaliarateGardens (q.v.) and the Church of St. Mary (q.v.)

Listing NGR: SY0724085997

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Legacy System:: LBS

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