SOUTHCOTT HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1107575
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: SOUTHCOTT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SOUTHCOTT HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1107575
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: SOUTHCOTT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTHCOTT HOUSE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SOUTHCOTT HOUSE

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

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Westleigh
National Grid Reference:: SS 46904 27573

Details

WESTLEIGH SOUTHCOTT 53 42 NE 3/110 Southcott House GV II House. C17, extended c.1860. Rendered stone rubble and cob. Gable-ended slate roofs, with higher ridge level to C19 range. Front lateral hall stack has pair of diagonally set stone rubble shafts heightened in brick. Brick stack at left end of C19 range. Stone rubble stack to gable end of rear service wing. Probably originally 3-room through-passage plan with rear 2 storey service wing, the lower end later demolished, and partition introduced across through-passage to form lobby entry. 3 bay C19 wing added at right end. C17 core has 3 window range, including gabled 2 storey porch which has 6 paned sashes above central pier dividing recessed doorway to left with fine ovolo moulded surround with elaborately moulded bar-ogee-scroll stopped durns and 2 panelled door, and 4 paned sash to right. Two 12-paned sashes to right over a 4-paned sash to left of two 12-paned sashes. 3 window range to C19 wing, all 12-paned horned sashes with horizontal sliding timber louvred shutters. Slated gabled roof to porch at left end. C19 fenestration to rear service wing. Interior: 2 panelled doors to the majority of rooms to both storeys. Winder staircase to rear of hall. Inner room has late C17 or early C18 moulded plasterwork ceiling divided into 2 fields by moulded central beam, formerly with central roundels to each field, one of the roundels not surviving , and part of the cornice removed in the rear right-hand corner when access was made into the C19 range. Roof space not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS4690427573

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 98834
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.