Kentisbeare House
KENTISBEARE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106533
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Kentisbeare House
- Statutory Address:
- KENTISBEARE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106533
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Kentisbeare House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KENTISBEARE 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:
- KENTISBEARE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kentisbeare
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 06479 07540
Details
ST 00 NE KENTISBEARE 8/80 Kentisbeare House - II Detached house, formerly Kentisbeare parsonage. Built 1841 to the designs of James Thomas Knowles, senior, enlarged 1855. Rendered stone; hipped slate roof with deeply overhanging eaves. Central staircase double-depth plan house, with the south facing principal rooms to the right of the main entrance hall, and the service rooms to the left. The addition to rear, opposite entrance front, comprises 2 main rooms to ground floor, and 3 rooms above. Paired internal lateral stacks. 2 storeys. Exterior Entrance front: symmetrical 3 window range; 12 pane hornless sash windows to first floor; small 2 light horned sash window to either side of central doorway, the entablature with modillion cornice and plain pilasters. Plat band extends around the entire building. Garden front (south west): symmetrical 4 window range; 12 pane hornless sash windows to both floors. The 1855 extension to the right is recessed from the garden front; the exposed part of the south east wall of the older range with a round headed ground floor window and C20 casement window above. Extension itself with a slightly asymmetrical 3-window south east front with 12 pane
Listing NGR: ST0647907540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95735
- 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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