STABLE BLOCK APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH EAST OF CASTLE HILL HOUSE INCLUDING 2 PAIRS OF GATEPIERS FLANKING ITS WESTERN END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1107538
Date first listed:: 13-May-1987
List Entry Name:: STABLE BLOCK APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH EAST OF CASTLE HILL HOUSE INCLUDING 2 PAIRS OF GATEPIERS FLANKING ITS WESTERN END
Statutory Address:: STABLE BLOCK APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH EAST OF CASTLE HILL HOUSE INCLUDING 2 PAIRS OF GATEPIERS FLANKING ITS WESTERN END

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1107538
Date first listed:: 13-May-1987
List Entry Name:: STABLE BLOCK APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH EAST OF CASTLE HILL HOUSE INCLUDING 2 PAIRS OF GATEPIERS FLANKING ITS WESTERN END
Statutory Address 1:: STABLE BLOCK APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH EAST OF CASTLE HILL HOUSE INCLUDING 2 PAIRS OF GATEPIERS FLANKING ITS WESTERN END

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: STABLE BLOCK APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH EAST OF CASTLE HILL HOUSE INCLUDING 2 PAIRS OF GATEPIERS FLANKING ITS WESTERN END

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Filleigh
National Grid Reference:: SS 67207 28444

Details

FILLEIGH CASTLE HILL SS 62 NE 5/33 Stable block approximately - 5 metres north-east of Castle Hill House including 2 pairs of gatepiers flanking its western end GV II*

Stable block, the main range converted to estate offices, with 2 pairs of flanking gatepiers. 1843 by Edward Blore with C20 alterations. Ashlar joint-lined rendered stone rubble with ashlar dressings. Hipped slate roof. Gatepiers of rusticated ashlar. Overall T-shape on plan. Symmetrical main range with central cupola, with wing attached to right end at right angles incorporating carriageway arch and terminating in square, domed pavilion to front end. Built in same Palladian style as house. 2 storeys. Main range 4:2:4 bays. Symmetrical. Modillion cornice. Low parapet with ornametal stone balls at intervals. Rusticated blind arcade of 3 bays to either side of rusticated 2 bay pedimented centrepiece which breaks forward slightly. Square central tower with balustraded parapet reducing to an-octagonal cupola surmounted by pineapple finial. 4 over 6 paned sashes to 2 central bays above pedimented tripartite window. Flanking bays each have series of blind semi- circular headed arches rising the full height of the facade, 3 of the left-hand bays and one to right pierced with 4 over 8 paned sashes above 16 paned sashes with moulded architraves. Gatepiers flanking left end to front and rear have moulded caps surmounted by dogs. At the right end, the range at right angles breaks forward incorporating tall semi- circular headed rusticated round arch carriageways on each side terminating at the front end in a square 2-storey pavilion with domed roof and ball finial, modillion cornice and plat-band. On its south side are 2 roundels containing busts above 16- paned sashes with moulded architraves. The outer (east) face of this range is similarly treated with roundels containing busts over 16-paned sashes flanking the carriageway arch, then continuing 5 bays to the right with roundels above sashes in plain reveals.

Listing NGR: SS6720728444

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 98948
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.