THE OLD HOUSE
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: THE OLD HOUSE
List entry Number: 1104915
Location
THE OLD HOUSE
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Devon
District: Torridge
District Type: District Authority
Parish:
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 07-Oct-1991
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 91984
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List entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
LUNDY
SS14SW The Old House
1938-0/2/8
II
House. Late C18 for Sir John Barlace Warren. Restored in
late c20 by Landmark Trust. Granite rubble with dread
granite quoin lintels and stringcourse. Slate roof with lead
roll ridge and granite coped gable end and parapet. Gable
end stacks with short rebuilt granite shafts.
Exterior: 2 storeys and cellar. Symmetrical 1:2:1 window
east front. The parapet with its granite string on granite
corbels continues across centre 2 bays which are recessed
slightly. Small square 6-pane sashes with granite lintels
and cills, tall 12-pane sashes on ground floor to left and
right. Central panelled double doors. The doors and all the
windows are C20 replacements. Similar rear elevation but here
the parapet at the centre is not corbelled out and the
central doorway has a plank door.
Interior: entirely rebuilt in late C20 but has reused plain
marble chimneypieces in front left hand ground floor room.
Note: There are drawings of 1775 by the architect William
Newton (1735-90) for a villa on Lundy for Sir John Barlase
Warren (Colvin). (Biographical Dictionary of British
Architects, 1600 - 1840; Lankmark Trust).
Listing NGR: SS1375644040
Selected Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
National Grid Reference: SS 13756 44040
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