The Ramps
THE RAMPS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105579
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Ramps
- Statutory Address:
- THE RAMPS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105579
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Ramps
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RAMPS
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:
- THE RAMPS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lewtrenchard
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 45953 85788
Details
SX 48 NE LEW TRENCHARD LEW QUARRY
4/95 The Ramps - II
House. Late C19, designed by Sabine Baring-Gould. Stone rubble with gabled slate roofs, some with sprocketted eaves. Partly slate-hung with some ornamental slate- hanging carried out over moulded bressumers. The site of the house, high above a flooded quarry fed by a waterfall probably encouraged Baring-Gould's most picturesque and playful design. 2 storeys. Irregular 1- + 2-window garden front consists of 1 block gabled at the left end and gabled to the front at the right end with ornamental slate-hanging in the front gable. To the left of this block and set back from it is a wing gabled to the front with a slate-hung first floor pentice carried out on an iron column. A similar pentice on the left gable end of the main block has been filled in at ground floor level in the C20. Ornamental leading to the 3- and 4-light ground floor casements. Square leaded panes to the 10-light pentice window. A 3- light roof dormer and a 4-light casement to the front gable have ornamental leading. The rear of the house consists of a loosely integrated arrangement of gables. The left-hand gable has applied timber framing with pargetting, the right-hand and centre gables are slate-hung. The centre gable is jettied out and at right angles to the others and its left side is curiously attached to the swept down roof of the main range. There is a small gabled l-storey wing to the side of the centre gable and a C20 glazed porch in the angle. Interior not inspected. The Ramps was regularly visited by F.W. Bussel, vice- principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, who assisted Baring-Gould in his collecting of folk-songs. The name of the house derives from Bussell's habit of enlivening European travel by passing himself off as Baron Frederick Von Rampenstein.
Listing NGR: SX4595385788
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92342
- 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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