NICHOLS NYMET HOUSE

NICHOLS NYMET HOUSE, NORTH TAWTON

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1105331
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: NICHOLS NYMET HOUSE
Statutory Address:: NICHOLS NYMET HOUSE, NORTH TAWTON

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Date:: 2005-03-01
Reference:: IOE01/13017/23
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1105331
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: NICHOLS NYMET HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: NICHOLS NYMET HOUSE, NORTH TAWTON

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: NICHOLS NYMET HOUSE, NORTH TAWTON

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: North Tawton
National Grid Reference:: SS 69224 02287

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/02/2013

SS 60 SE 6/71 22.2.67

NORTH TAWTON Nichols Nymet House

(Formerly listed as Nichols Nymet House Hotel)

GV II

Country house, previously a hotel. Dated 1816 with later C19 additions. Rendered stone rubble walls with rusticated stucco quoins at front. Shallow pitched hipped slate roof with wide overhanging eaves. 2 rendered axial stacks symmetrically placed. Plan: double depth plan with rooms arranged around central large stairhall. Principal rooms at front and side. Service rooms at rear. Kitchen behind left-hand front room. Later C19 additions at the rear and left-hand side. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front with original hornless sash windows - 20 panes on the ground floor and 16:12:16 panes on first floor, the central one with an arched head. The central section is recessed slightly and has original double part-glazed doors with semi-circular fanlight above. This is under an open-fronted verandah-type porch with slender iron pillars. The 2 outer sections have splayed corners and on the left-hand one is an inscribed date-stone of 1816. The right-hand elevation has a 2-storey hipped roof porch with C19 glazed doors. Later C19 leantos at rear. Interior: entrance hall has 3 tall arches at rear on wooden columns, the central wider one is over the staircase. The staircase is original with open string, square balusters and turned newels. The former kitchen has a large open fireplace.

Listing NGR: SS6922402287

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Legacy System number:: 92954
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.