Victoria House
VICTORIA HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162883
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria House
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162883
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria House
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICTORIA 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:
- VICTORIA HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Nympton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 75833 23773
Details
SS 72 SE BISHOP'S NYMPTON
6/46 Victoria House
GV II
House and adjoining workshop. House a circa mid/late C19 remodelling of an earlier structure (called Church House in the deeds, information from owner), workshop mid/late C19. Stone rubble with slate roofs, the house roof half-hipped at the right end, 2 rear lateral stacks to the house, one with a stone shaft, one with a hand-made brick shaft. Plan: Facing into the north-east corner of the churchyard and end on to the village street. The house is a single-depth plan, 2 rooms wide with a central entrance and straight run stair facing the front door. The position and materials of the 2 rear lateral stacks, now enclosed by a rear lean-to are the only obvious pre C19 features of the present building apart from a datestone of 1730 on the front elevation with the initials WGA. The large rectangular workshop adjoins the house at the front left (south-west) and is set forward from it, projecting into the churchyard. It is said to have been a wheelwright's workshop and appears always to have had a semi- industrial use. Exterior: 2-storey house with a symmetrical 3-bay front. C19 plank front door in the centre with a glazed rectangular overlight. Datestone of 1730 with initials in the front. wall to right of centre. 2-light C19 or C20 timber casements with glazing bars, one on either side of the front door and 3 to the first floor. The right return of the house faces the village street and is symmetrical with brick dressings to the openings. C19 panelled front door (possibly a shop door) in the centre, flanked by 2-pane late C19 sashes with a 4-pane similar sash on the first floor in the centre. The workshop has a 12-pane fixed window on the south side, and 3 windows on the west end. There is internal evidence of a further large doorway on the east end where the workshop projects forward from the house. Interior: The house has a boxed in crossbeam in the right hand room. Roof Not inspected at time of survey. The building was thatched in 1960 (old list description) but the thatch was laid over an earlier slate roof (information from owner). Likely to have been the Church House and historically of interest for this reason, possibly with C16 or C17 features not seen at time of survey (1987). Important to the setting of the Church and, sited end on to the road, providing variety to the main street in the village.
Listing NGR: SS7583023772
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97576
- 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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