The Old Estate Office
THE OLD ESTATE OFFICE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097680
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Estate Office
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD ESTATE OFFICE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097680
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Estate Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD ESTATE OFFICE
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:
- THE OLD ESTATE OFFICE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kenton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX9650283105
Details
SX 98 SE
6/255
KENTON
SOUTH TOWN, Kenton
The Old Estate Office
GV
II
House, formerly the Estate Office and Steward's House to the Powderham Estate. Said
to be C18 on account of the doorcase but possibly early C19 re-using the doorcase.
Whitewashed and rendered; slate roof, gabled at ends; left end stack and 2 axial
stacks.
Plan: single depth plan, 3 rooms wide, with an entrance to right of centre into a
heated room containing the stair.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 6-bay front with regular fenestration. Re-used 2-
leaf glazed front door with a doorcase with reeded pilasters and a curved hood with a
dentil cornice. Closely-spaced 2-light C19 or C20 timber casements with glazing
bars.
Interior: Joinery includes deeply-panelled doors and cupboards and a stair with
diamond piercings to plain splat balusters. 2 reeded chimney-pieces survive with C19
grates, one introduced from elsewhere.
Group value with Polruan, adjoining at the right, and thatched houses on the opposite
side of the road.
Listing NGR: SX9650283105
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85920
- 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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