Old Newnham
OLD NEWNHAM, NEWNHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1162879
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Old Newnham
- Statutory Address:
- OLD NEWNHAM, NEWNHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1162879
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Old Newnham
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD NEWNHAM, NEWNHAM ROAD
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:
- OLD NEWNHAM, NEWNHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sparkwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 55212 57331
Details
SX 55 NE SPARKWELL NEWNHAM ROAD 10/120 23-4-52 Old Newnham GV I
Former manor house. C15 origins, largely rebuilt in early C16. Granite ashlar and rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs, gabled and hipped. The original hall, non floored, has a screens passage moved from the west end to the east end. The solar is in the long west range which extends to the south-west to form an L-shaped plan and incorporates the remains of the gatehouse. The chapel possibly occupied the much altered wing east of the hall, and the kitchen was to the north. Two storeys. Three/4 bays. Gabled 2-storeyed porch to right of hall, with moulded 4-centred arch doorway with carved spandrels and 3-light ovolo moulded stone mullion window above, with hood mould. Hall to left with large recessed 6-light window with ovolo mullion and transoms, 3 of the lower mullions removed. Oriel to left (west) of hall with mutilated tracery. Right hand (east) remodelled projecting cross wing with hipped roof and sash windows. Long wing to left hand (south-west) forming L-plan and with levels descending southwards. Two and 3 storeys. Large moulded stone mullion windows with 4-centred or ogee-arched lights. Moulded 4-centred arch doorways with recessed spandrels on ground and first floor. The south range, the remains of the gate house, has wide carriageway with moulded 4-centred arch and carved spandrels. Other round, pointed and 4-central arch openings, and buttresses with set-offs. Fine garderobe corbelled out on south gable end. Large ashlar chimneystacks, 2 over the west range with crenellated lantern shaped taps and crocketed finials. Interior: hall has inserted floor but retains the collar-braced roof of 3 bays. Hall fireplace has large moulded granite chimneypiece with ogee head. The higher end of the hall has three C15 doorways. The original solar in the west range has compartmented moulded ceiling with carved bosses at the intersections and granite chimneypiece. The room below has moulded and carved ceiling beams. Four-centred arch doorways at top and bottom of solar stairs. Formerly the seat of the Strodes before they moved to Newnham Park qv. Reference: W G Hoskins, "Devon A New Survey of England", page 463.
Listing NGR: SX5521257366
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99227
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hoskins, W G, A New Survey of England in Devon, (1972), 463
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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