Court Lodge With Gatepiers and Gate
COURT LODGE WITH GATEPIERS AND GATE, SOWTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164804
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Court Lodge With Gatepiers and Gate
- Statutory Address:
- COURT LODGE WITH GATEPIERS AND GATE, SOWTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164804
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Court Lodge With Gatepiers and Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT LODGE WITH GATEPIERS AND GATE, SOWTON LANE
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:
- COURT LODGE WITH GATEPIERS AND GATE, SOWTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sowton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 97714 92628
Details
SOWTON SOWTON LANE (east side) SX 99 SE 1/50 Court Lodge with gatepiers - and gate 19.12.74 - II
Former lodge to Bishop's Court. 1834. Snecked limestone; gabled end slate roof. Single-depth plan cottage, with 2 rooms, with an entrance lobby with large porch set right of centre; central axial stack with C20 brick shaft. 1 1/2 storeys. Front: (facing drive) : porch to right, gabled with wavy bargeboarding, with an elliptical chamfered stone arch; to the left of this is a 2-light casement window with transom, and a separately gabled half dormer with traceried triangular head to the 2-light casement window. Left-hand end faces the road with a 2:4:2 pane canted bay, with single lancet window to gable wall; prominent bargeboarding. Right-hand end : 2-light casement window to gable wall, with hood mould; ground floor with canted bay, as to the other end. A C20 rear wing has been added, of 2 storeys, reconstituted stone to ground floor, slate-hung above. The associated gate piers, of limestone, square-section, with pyramidal caps, and the wooden gate, traceried, with fleur-de-lis to upper rail, are included in this listing.
Listing NGR: SX9771492628
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86186
- 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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