Hill House (West)
HILL HOUSE (WEST)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106743
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Hill House (West)
- Statutory Address:
- HILL HOUSE (WEST)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106743
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Hill House (West)
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL HOUSE (WEST)
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:
- HILL HOUSE (WEST)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chulmleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 68795 14181
Details
CHULMLEIGH CHULMLEIGH SS 6814 -6914 7/41 Hill House (West) GV II House. Principally circa 1800-1820 but rear range may well contain earlier fabric. Joint-lined stuccoed stone rubble and cob. Slate roof with gable ends to front range with brick stack at right end, and hipped slate roof to rear range with stacks at each end, that to left with offsets and brickshaft. Plan: deceptively large house consisting of 2 parallel ranges. Front range has single heated room to right of former entrance passage, the right-hand partition of which has been removed creating direct entry. The upper storey is carried over carriageway to left. The passage way originally continued through the short narrow range connecting the front and rear ranges; the latter, of 2 heated rooms (kitchen to left, parlour to right) is parallel with but continues to the right of the front range. The flat-roofed stairwell is situated between the front and rear ranges to the right of the short connecting range; although again extending further to the right of the front range. At the right end of the rear range is a further narrow gable-ended 2-storey range containing passage through to rear garden and 2 large coal and store-sheds. Exterior: 2 storeys. 3 window range. All C19 hornless 12 paned sashes. Doorway has shallow canopy supported on decorative console brackets. Canted bay window to right with dentilled cornice and 12 paned sash with 4 paned sidelights. Double plank doors to carriage entrance to left. Interior: early C19 joinery largely intact. Open well stair has moulded string, handrail and stick balusters with turned newels. Heavy moulded plaster cornice to stairwell ceiling with central ceiling rose. Decorative moulded plaster cornice to right-hand room of the rear range. Principally round-arched doorways with unmoulded timber architraves. Roof: king-post roof structure to front range with dovetailed raking struts and pegged A-frame trusses to hipped rear range with lapped collars.
Listing NGR: SS6879814185
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97219
- 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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