Prixford House
PRIXFORD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107160
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Prixford House
- Statutory Address:
- PRIXFORD HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107160
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Prixford House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIXFORD 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:
- PRIXFORD HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Marwood
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 54838 36757
Details
SS 53 NW MARWOOD PRIXFORD
4/39 Prixford House
25.2.65
- II
House, C18 remodelled in mid C19 with early range at rear. Main block, brick side wall, rendered to front with plinth rusticated quoins, floating plat and moulded cornice and ogee gutter, all painted with masonry paint. 2½ storeys, slate roof with lead rolls, hipped each end, with tail end stacks now cemented over. 3 bays, single depth, symmetrical. Two parallel gable ended wings to rear, one of which is the early range, the other integral with the front and further extended at rear. Timber canted bays on ground floor with moulded cornice on brackets and lead roofs. Timber sashes, 2 panes per sash and plated without glazing bars to side. 2 panel half-glazed door not original, with shouldered architrave and moulded stone canopy on curved brackets. Oversize timber sash of 4 panes per sash above with tripartite timber sashes with glazing bars in centre lights, 2 pane per sash. Pair of dormers slated cheeks and hips with timber casements, 4 panes per casement. Short attached courtyard wall with boarded door and frame with slated top, leads past 2 storey facade of 4 windows, increasing in size to right. 3 timber sashes, 6 panes per sash and timber sash, 8 panes per sash to right above 2 timber boarded entrance doors. 2 light, 6 pane timber casement to right of right-hand door. Right-hand room in main block has large square panelling with rolled corners and simple plastered ceiling of circle-moulding around foliated centrepiece. Much of the internal joinery is intact including-upstairs chimney pieces. C18 dog-leg stairs with twisted balusters, square newels, and moulded string and rail. Large roof' princples exposed in earlier wing.
Listing NGR: SS5483836757
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98212
- 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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