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LONGCAUSE HOUSE

LONGCAUSE HOUSE, BARRACKS HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1108350
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1952
Statutory Address:: LONGCAUSE HOUSE, BARRACKS HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1108350
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1952
Statutory Address 1:: LONGCAUSE HOUSE, BARRACKS HILL

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:: LONGCAUSE HOUSE, BARRACKS HILL

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

County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: Dartington
National Grid Reference:: SX 79186 61139

Details

DARTINGTON SX7861 - SX7961 BARRACKS HILL, LONGCAUSE 13/111 Longcause House 11.11.52 II

House. Built in 1823 or 1825. Said to have been designed by J Brown of Exeter. Stuccoed stone rubble, simple spare slate hipped roof with sprocketted eaves overhanging on paired brackets. Over the centre of the ridge on hexagonal timber bellcote with a tent-shaped lead or zinc roof with a ball finial and weather vane. Rendered chimney stacks one on the right (north east) side and 2 to left of ridge, each with 3 octagonal shafts with short yellow clay pots. Plan: Rectangular plan of 3 rooms deep; 2 principal front rooms and a central entrance hall/passage leading to a stairwell behind the right hand room and a small office/study behind the left hand room. The central passage continues to a rear doorway and to either side there is the kitchen to the right, behind the stair well with its own stairs to the servant's quarters, and to the left, behind the study, a room which was possibly the servant's hall. Exterior: 2 storeys. South east front: symmetrical 3 bays. Large original 12-pane sashes, the ground floor cills almost at ground level. Wide central doorway with moulded doorframe and hall glazed double doors with pattern of margin and arched glazing bars and bottom panels; wide portico with 2 pairs of rendered Doric columns and pilasters supporting an establishment with a moulded cornice. The south west garden front, left hand return, is longer and has wider spaced 3 bays of similar sash windows, but no doorway. The right hand return, north east side has irregular fenestration, 12-pane sash on ground and first floor to left of centre and tall central round- arched stair window with glazing bars radiating at top. C20 garage adjoining right. The rear, north west, is 3 bays, smaller 12-pane first floor sash windows, the ground floor with blind segmental fanlights above and central doorway with moulded doorframe with pilasters and flush-panel door with rectangular fanlight in blind recess. Interior: is largely intact and most of its original joinery is preserved including doors and window shutters etc and most of the original plasterwork survives. The hall has a five groin vaulted plaster ceiling leading to the stair well with an open-well stairs with stick balusters and weathered handrail, open string with shaped tread ends. The stair well and landing ceilings have modillion cornices and elliptical arches with key- motif in the intrados. The modillion cornices and elliptical arches with key-motif in the intrados. The modillion cornices and elliptical arches with key-motif in the intrados. The front right hand room has moulded plaster cornice and frieze with Vitruvian scroll and shallow elliptically arched recess in rear wall. The front left hand has a moulded plaster cornices with a fish-scale pattern frieze. Moulded plaster ceiling centrepiece and round-headed niches either side of the fireplace. The chimney pieces in the front rooms have been replaced. The ground floor office has plaster cornice with egg and dart pattern. The servant's hall behind has a simple moulded plaster cornice. The kitchen has a C19 iron range. The cellars have brick groin vaults and access is from stairs in the kitchen. The house is said to have been built on the site of Longcause Barracks, of 1794, on the foundations of the officers' mess.

Listing NGR: SX7918661139

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

Legacy System number:: 101024
Legacy System:: LBS

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