Wembley House
WEMBLEY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104660
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wembley House
- Statutory Address:
- WEMBLEY HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104660
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wembley House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEMBLEY 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:
- WEMBLEY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashwater
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 38566 95264
Details
ASHWATER ASHWATER SX 39 NE 3/15 Wembley House - GV II House. Circa late C18 with C20 rear addition. Colourwashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings with a thatched roof, hipped at ends. The original plan was single depth with a wide central passage and 2 rooms each heated by massive projecting lateral stacks with set-offs on the rear. Small single-storey lean-tos adjoining each end may be contemporary. The 2 room and passage plan survives with a C20 single-storey flat-roofed rear addition, the rear right stack has been truncated and capped. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front with a central gabled porch. Fenestration probably early C20, a 2-light casement, 4 panes per light above the porch, other windows 3-light casements, 3 panes per light, the window to the left of the porch flanked by rough buttresses. One 2-light casement to the left-hand lean- to, 3 panes per light. Interior The right-hand fireplace has jambs of squared masonry and a timber lintel, the left-hand fireplace is C20.
Listing NGR: SX3857195263
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90717
- 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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