Delamore

DELAMORE, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1147558
Date first listed:
02-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:
Delamore
Statutory Address:
DELAMORE, FORE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1147558
Date first listed:
02-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:
Delamore
Statutory Address 1:
DELAMORE, FORE STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DELAMORE, FORE STREET

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

County:
Devon
District:
Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Bishopsteignton
National Grid Reference:
SX 90587 73806

Details

BISHOPSTEIGNTON FORE STREET (north side), SX 9073-9173 Bishopsteignton Delamore 13/52 II

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Villa. Early C19. Colourwashed stuccoed stone rubble ; 2 span slate roof, the main roof, half-hipped at ends, roofs of left and right blocks hipped at ends ; rendered stacks. Plan: Rectangular double depth plan with a central entrance into a wide stair hall which is the full depth of the house, principal rooms to left and right, separately- roofed service block to the rear. Exterior: Set back from the road behind tall garden walls. Very intact exterior with a 5-bay front, the centre 3 bays slightly broken forward with a higher roofline. Pretty glazed verandah supported on timber trellis posts withchinoiserie spandrels, the centre bay glazed-in to form a porch. Half-glazed front door with margin glazing and a rectangular fanlight. French windows to left and right with high transoms, margin panes and sliding shutters. 16-pane early C19 first floor sashes to left and right, 12-pane sash to centre, all with shutters (temporarily removed at time of survey, 1987). Interior: Not thoroughly inspected at time of survey but very complete with a good wide stair with stick balusters and a wreathed handrail, early C19 joinery and chimneypieces. Delamore is a particularly fine and unaltered example of a large villa in substantial grounds ; this type of house is characteristic of the development of Bishopsteignton in the early C19 but there are only 2 surviving examples in the village which have not been subdivided or converted for institutional use. Group value'with garden walls.

Listing NGR: SX9058773806

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
85714
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.

Ordnance survey map of Delamore

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