NICHOLS NYMET HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1105331
Date first listed: 22-Feb-1967
Statutory Address: NICHOLS NYMET HOUSE, NORTH TAWTON
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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
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History
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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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 92954
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.
End of official listing