Leslie House
LESLIE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1097682
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Leslie House
- Statutory Address:
- LESLIE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1097682
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Leslie House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LESLIE HOUSE
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:
- LESLIE HOUSE
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:
- SX 96410 83125
Details
KENTON SOUTH TOWN, Kenton SX 98 SE
6/258 Leslie House 11.11.52
GV II*
House, said to have been dower house to Powderham Castle. C18 with early C19 alterations. Whitewashed and stuccoed, said to be framed with brick infill; 2 span slate roof, behind a parapet; end stacks. Plan: Double depth plan, 2 rooms wide with a central entrance into a passage containing the stair. All four ground floor rooms have good plaster cornices and it is not clear where the original kitchen was, possibly in the basement. A single- storey rear left lean-to is probably a later addition. Exterior: 3 storey and basement. Symmetrical 3-bay front with high quality detail and original windows. Rusticated plinth, deep cornice below parapet with a dentil frieze, carried out round the 3 storey canted bays to left and right. White steps up to a central panelled front door with a semi-circular fanlight with wrought iron decoration including the initials H and C for Courtenay. Good doorcase with Roman Ionic columns supporting a pediment above a cornice with a dentil frieze. 12-pane sash above front door with a pediment and eared shouldered architraves; 6 over 3 sash in the centre of the second floor. The canted bays have cornices and 12-pane sashes. The rear elevation also has C18 sash windows, paired to the left and right. Interior: Plaster cornices to the ground floor, good C18 stair with an open string with turned balusters. The front left room has an extremely fine scagliola chimneypiece, said to have originated at Powderham Castle, with flanking niches with dentil cornices.
Listing NGR: SX9641083125
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85923
- 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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