The White House

THE WHITE HOUSE, EXMOUTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104186
Date first listed:
11-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:
The White House
Statutory Address:
THE WHITE HOUSE, EXMOUTH ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104186
Date first listed:
11-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:
The White House
Statutory Address 1:
THE WHITE HOUSE, EXMOUTH ROAD

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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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

Location

Statutory Address:
THE WHITE HOUSE, EXMOUTH ROAD

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. George
National Grid Reference:
SX 98116 88012

Details

SX 98 NE WOODBURY EXMOUTH ROAD, Ebford

1/102 The White House or Ebford House, 11.11.52 - II

Substantial detached house. Early C19. Stuccoed brick; gabled-end slate roof. Central entrance hall with principal room to either side. Stairs to the rear of entrance hall, and service rooms to rear. 3 storeys. Front: symmetrical 5 window range; rusticated quoins, moulded cornice and parapet. Hornless sash windows to 2nd and 3rd floors, the former with 12 panes, the latter with 3 panes up, 6 down. Tall, later-C19 ground floor casement windows with transom and an almost identical central door. Verandah on simple paired posts, the roof of concave profile. End elevations with prominent external stacks occupying most of the wall space, the parapet ramped to either side. Cogged brick caps to chimney shafts. Irregular fenestration to rear; 3 of the 4 3rd floor windows as front; lst floor with one 12-pane hornless sash window and another of 8 panes (with margin panes) under a segmental arch; another 12 pane sash window, and a tripartite 4:8:4 pane sash window to ground floor. A 1980s window has been inserted at 1st floor level, and another in the right-hand end elevation, ground floor. Some contemporary joinery survives internally.

Listing NGR: SX9811688012

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
88611
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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