Watermouth House, Including Garden Outbuilding Immediately to Rear
WATERMOUTH HOUSE, INCLUDING GARDEN OUTBUILDING IMMEDIATELY TO REAR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106828
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Watermouth House, Including Garden Outbuilding Immediately to Rear
- Statutory Address:
- WATERMOUTH HOUSE, INCLUDING GARDEN OUTBUILDING IMMEDIATELY TO REAR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106828
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Watermouth House, Including Garden Outbuilding Immediately to Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATERMOUTH HOUSE, INCLUDING GARDEN OUTBUILDING IMMEDIATELY TO REAR
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:
- WATERMOUTH HOUSE, INCLUDING GARDEN OUTBUILDING IMMEDIATELY TO REAR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Berrynarbor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55752 47445
Details
BERRYNARBOR SS 54 NE 1/32 Watermouth House, including garden outbuilding immediately - to rear - II House, including garden outbuilding. Late C19. House of unrendered stone rubble. Slate roof with gable end brick stacks and axial brick stack. Lion's head guttering. Double-depth plan, built into bank with rear access to first floor principal rooms and off-centre front doorway to ground floor rooms. 3 storeys. All windows to front and rear have hoodmoulds with returned ends. The facade of 3 bays is dominated by the first floor verandah which projects on decorative wrought iron brackets and has a hipped tiled roof supported on slender chamfered timber posts, and has balustrade of shaped splat balusters, the central bay breaks forward and is supported below by raking struts resting on stone corbels, the hipped roof of the projecting balcony is capped with a clay ball finial. Transomed French windows give access to balcony. Upper and ground floor windows are 12-paned sashes. Off centre 6-panelled door to ground floor. Interior of house not accessible. Garden outbuilding to rear of stone rubble with brick dressings and pyramidal slate roof. Square on plan, 3 storeys built into bank with first floor garden access. Watermouth House was the dower house to Watermouth Castle (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SS5575247445
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97007
- 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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