Grindle House

GRINDLE HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1097570
Date first listed:
20-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
Grindle House
Statutory Address:
GRINDLE HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1097570
Date first listed:
20-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
Grindle House
Statutory Address 1:
GRINDLE HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
GRINDLE HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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

County:
Devon
District:
East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Clyst St. Mary
National Grid Reference:
SX 97963 90508

Details

CLYST ST MARY CHURCH LANE Grindle House

SX 99 SE

1/23

II

The description shall be amended to read

Detached house, formerly Clyst St Mary rectory. Rough-rendered brick, but smooth rendered plinth, stepped in places; coped gables to slate roof. Double stacks with rendered shafts. Two storeys.

Front: Symmetrical 5-window range, all 12-pane hornless sashes. Central porch with Tuscan columns to flat entablature with cornice and dentils. Parapet.

Left-hand return: 3 small attic sashes (3 panes top, 6 lower), two 12-pane hornless sashes first floor; further 12-pane sash to ground floor, to left of fielded 6-panel door under small, separated lunette, and at head of 4 steps to landing, concrete pavings, plain square baluster steel balustrade. Right-hand return: two sashes at each level, similar arrangement to opposite end: Back: one 12-pane central sash over fielded 6-panel door in late C20 pent porch, centred between two projecting buttresses to concrete copings at level of upper window cill; these formerly carried prominent chimney stacks.

Interior: Plaster cornices; panelled doors, reeded architraves to principal rooms, staircase with stick balusters.

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CLYST ST MARY CHURCH LANE SX 99 SE 1/23 Grindle House -

- II

Detached house, formerly Clyst St Mary Rectory. Rendered brick; gabled-end slate roof. Double-depth plan with central staircase; front rooms heated by internal end stacks, back rooms by rear stacks, all with brick shafts. 2 storeys. Front: symmetrical 5-window range, all windows with 12-pane hornless sashes; plat band and parapet; central porch with Tuscan columns, cornice and modillions. Right-hand elevation: 2 attic windows; one 12-pane hornless-sash window to 1st floor and ground floor, both set well back. Left-hand elevation: 3 small attic sash windows (3 panes up, 6 down); 212-pane hornless sash windows to 1st floor; round-headed window to ground floor. Later extension at this end; another, possibly contemporary extension to rear running along the same alignment as the main range but much lower, with one sash window to front face, another to gable wall to right. Interior: plaster cornices; panelled doors, reeded architraves to principal rooms; staircase with stick balusters.

Listing NGR: SX9796390508

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
86159
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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