Ashprington House
ASHPRINGTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108390
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Ashprington House
- Statutory Address:
- ASHPRINGTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108390
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Ashprington House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHPRINGTON 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:
- ASHPRINGTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashprington
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 81778 57049
Details
ASHPRINGTON SX85NW Stancombe Linhays 6/11
9.2.61 II
House Circa 1780, reduced in circa mid C20. Rendered stone rubble with rusticated quions. Low pitched hipped asbestos slate roof with deep eaves. The original house was 3 storeys with a modillion cornice. Rendered axial stacks. Plan: Double depths plan with 2 relatively small principal front rooms and a wide central entrance hall leading to a large stairwell at the back. 2 deep back rooms flanking and projecting at the back beyond the stairwell. The original house was 3 storeys and the rear left hand part of the house. In the mid C20 the house was reduced to 2 storeys, the rear left hand room raised to 2 storeys and the back range demolished to form a regular approximately square block. Exterior: storeys, basement and attic (originally 3 storeys). Symmetrical 3 bays. 12-pane sashes, only the first floor centre is original C19 sash. Central doorway with side lights and rectangular overlight with radial glazing bars and fielded panel double doors; The portico with columns and entablature is a replacement of the original and has glazed sides and front; it is standing on marble steps. C20 segmented roofed dormers with 9-pane sashes. The right had return is 3 bays, the left had window to the front room is a bow of 3 12-pane carved sashes with a slate roof. The other windows on this side are C20 12-pane sashes, similar bow on the left hand return but its carved sashes are C20 replacements, and tripartite sashes to the left. The rear elevation: the eaves are carried over a central recess which has a tall square-headed stair window with glazing bars. Interior: The left hand room has a moulded plaster cornice and ceiling border with Vitruvian scroll decoration and a mid C19 white marble chimneypiece with a bracketed marble shelf. The right hand room has a modillion cornice and a C20 Adam style chimneypiece. Original C18 fielded panel doors. The entrance hall has a cyma moulded cornice and a large elliptical arch to the stairhall behind with a fielded panel intrados. A good mahogany hand rail ramped up to turned column newels; the open string has scrolled tread ends. The owner possesses photographs of the house before it was altered in the mid C20.
Listing NGR: SX8177857049
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100921
- 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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