Lower Radway House and Little Radway
LOWER RADWAY HOUSE AND LITTLE RADWAY, 31, RADWAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097768
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Radway House and Little Radway
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER RADWAY HOUSE AND LITTLE RADWAY, 31, RADWAY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097768
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Radway House and Little Radway
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER RADWAY HOUSE AND LITTLE RADWAY, 31, RADWAY STREET
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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:
- LOWER RADWAY HOUSE AND LITTLE RADWAY, 31, RADWAY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishopsteignton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 91154 73938
Details
BISHOPSTEIGNTON RADWAY STREET, Bishopsteignton SX 9073-9173
13/68 No 31 (Lower Radway House and Little Radway) 23.8.55 (formerly listed as No 31 (Higher Radway Farmhouse))
II
House, divided into house and cottage. Probably C16 or C17 origins with a rear addition that may be C18 and considerable interior alterations. Stone rubble, whitewashed and rendered ; slate roof, gabled at ends,thatched until circa 1950 ; end stacks, front lateral stack with brick shaft. Plan: Single depth main range, 3 rooms wide with an entrance to left of centre into a passage containing the stair ; rear left service wing and further rear service rooms under a lean-to roof. The origins of the house are probably a 3 room and through passage plan (door on rear wall under stairs, opposed to front door), lower end to the left, the inner room now a separate cottage (Little Radway). Exposed carpentry in the right hand room of Radway House but not in the lower end. The former passage has been widened to the rear to give access to the service rooms round the introduced stair. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5 window front with a gabled 2-storey porch with porch benches. Fenestration of 1- and 2-light C20 timber windows with glazing bars; the porch has 2 first floor small pointed windows to the returns. Interior: The right hand room of Lower Radway House has chamfered step-stopped crossbeams of a C16 or C17 character. The fireplace to the lateral stack is probably an C18 rebuilding with a slightly chamfered timber lintel. Stone paved floor to entrance passage and probably elsewhere on the ground floor. No exposed carpentry to left hand room which has a rebuilt fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel. Interior of Little Radway not inspected but may retain early carpentry. Roof: No access to apex at time of survey (1987). Principal rafters visible upstairs are straight but of large scantling and probably of a late C17 or C18 date. A traditional house, visible from the road.
Listing NGR: SX9115473938
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85732
- 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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