Sandridge Park
SANDRIDGE PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1108493
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Sandridge Park
- Statutory Address:
- SANDRIDGE PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1108493
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Sandridge Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- SANDRIDGE PARK
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:
- SANDRIDGE PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke Gabriel
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 85990 56475
Details
SX 85 NE STOKE GABRIEL
8/111 Sandridge Park
11.11.52
- II*
Country house in landscaped grounds overlooking River Dart. Built in 1805. Architect John Nash for Lady Ashburton. Italianate style. Stuccoed stone rubble. Low pitched slate hipped roof with wide eaves with paired brackets to soffit. Asymmetrical plan. Two storeys, with two storey plus attic towers. 2:3:1 bays. Round-headed sash windows with glazing bars. Central three-bay segmentally bowed ground floor bay with wooden trelliswork once continued left and right around the house. Right hand (east) square tower of two storeys and attic with a low-pitched pyramidal roof. Left hand (west) set back with round end rising to a two storey and attic round tower with a low-pitched conical roof and elliptical attic window.
Rendered brick octagonal chimney stacks.
Service wing set back to north east, built round courtyard at rear (north). The round-arched carriageway through to courtyard area is a C20 alteration. Before there was a conservatory on the south front of the service wing (NMR). Over the north end of the wing a turret with steeply pitched tent-shaped roof, pilastered corners and louvred bullseyes.
Interior: Circular entrance hall (now dining room) with blind arcaded walls and vaulted entrance corridor. Simple open string staircase with straight balusters and wreathed handrail, and with lantern over the upper landing. Many of the original features survive including moulded marble chimney pieces one with Egyptian style pilasters, and original joinery including doors and shutters etc.
Sandridge was held by the Sandridges under the Bishop of Exeter in Henry II's reign. It was sold by the Gilberts, of Compton Castle qv, in 1770 to 'the first Lord Ashburton who built the present house.
Reference: H Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, page 583. Plans were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1805.
Listing NGR: SX8599056475
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100657
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 583
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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