Pixies Hall
PIXIES HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107421
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Pixies Hall
- Statutory Address:
- PIXIES HALL
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05039/14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107421
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Pixies Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- PIXIES HALL
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:
- PIXIES HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Holne
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7017369660
Details
HOLNE -
SX 76 NW
4/181 Pixies Hall
-
- II
Small country house. 1928, by Fred Harild of Totnes who had been articled to
Lutyens. Drawings of this house exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1929. Devonian
limestone rubble. Thatched hipped roof with deep eaves with eyebrows and boarded
sofits, and with eyebrow dormers. Large end chimney stacks with set-offs and
rendered shafts. The chimney breast at north end is pierced by window at ground
storey level. One axial ridge stack off-centre. Vernacular revival style. Slightly
curved almost butterfly plan with symmetrical elevations. 2 storeys. The entrance
front is on the converse side. Central round arch entrance porch with recessed
doorway with wide eyebrow dormer above and 2 short flanking hipped-roof wings, their
thatched roofs on the outer sides narried down to lower level, that on right-hand
side carried on square pier over small verandah. Garden front on the concave side
has wide eyebrows at centre over glazed door with side lights and stone hood mould,
flanked by straight-headed lancets and stone ovolo-moulded cross mullion transom
windows. 5-light window on left hand and 3-light on right hand. All casement
windows with leaded panes in iron frames and slate weathering to lintels. Nail-
studded oak doors. Interior: largely intact interior. Ovolo moulded ceiling and
joists with butt-stapps. Original nail-studded oak plank doors with cover moulds.
Stone newel stairs with wooden balustrade at top and tapered newel post rising to
lamp standard. Stone tiled hall floor. Stone Tudor-arch chimneypiece in dining
room. Large open fireplace in drawing room with plain wooden chimneypiece with
segmental arch and mantel shelf.
Listing NGR: SX7017369660
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99285
- 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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