Check House
CHECK HOUSE, BEER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164768
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Check House
- Statutory Address:
- CHECK HOUSE, BEER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164768
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Check House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHECK HOUSE, BEER 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:
- CHECK HOUSE, BEER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Seaton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 23988 89896
Details
SEATON BEER ROAD 1. 5176 Check House SY 28 NW 4/2 II 2. Large detached house in landscaped garden overlooking sea. Now an hotel. Circa 1860. Probably to the designs of Benjamin Woodward but executed by Charles Edwards and completed in 1866. Large Victorian gothic house. Built of knapped flint and stone in chequered pattern with red brick and stone dressings. Steeply pitched slate hipped and gabled roof. Small gables with shaped and pierced bargeboards. Two storeys. Asymmetrical plan and elevations. Two storeyed canted bay with pyramidal roof. Chamfered stone window frames with shouldered and cusped arches. Across south front and around the curved corner to left is a cast iron verandah with decorative pierced spandrels and glazed tented roof. Gabled timber porch at east end with ornate bargeboards and finial and with three-light window in gable above. External corbelled chimney breast to side with set-offs and diagonal shafts. Conservatory on west side probably late C19.
The house was originally known as Calverley Lodge. It was built for Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, geologist, antiquarian and botonist and his wife Pauline, patroness of the Pre-Raphaelites. Trevelyan also built Seaton Bridge (Asemouth parish) in 1877, the concrete bridge over the River Ase.
Listing NGR: SY2398889896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 87579
- 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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