Varnes
VARNES, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165072
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Varnes
- Statutory Address:
- VARNES, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165072
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Varnes
- Statutory Address 1:
- VARNES, CHURCH 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:
- VARNES, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lympstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 99129 84193
Details
SX 98 SE LYMPSTONE CHURCH ROAD (north side), Lympstone 5/11 Varnes - GV II
Detached house. Late-C16 or earlier core, much modified, particularly in the early C19. Plastered cob on stone footings: gabled-end slate roof. What appears externally to be a Regency house was formerly a 3-room, through-passage plan, the higher end to the left of the passage, with a service-end rear wing. Rear lateral stack heats hall; service end wing with a large axial stack with set-offs (previously once an end stack); internal end stacks to both this wing and inner room; all with brick shafts, some plastered. 2 storeys. Front: 4-window range, 2 and 3-light casements to 1st floor, 2 panes per light and margin panes; ground floor with one 3, and two 2-light casement windows, as above, with a French window, with transom and margin panes; a verandah once extended across the entire width of the front, but survives now only over the doorway which has panelled reveals, the door glazed with rectangular fanlight. Both ends of main range with cusped bargeboarding. Right-hand elevation with French window, and 2 casement windows to 1st floor, all glazed as front; other windows are C20. Interior: with ceiling beams, chamfered, hollow moulding to hall; cross beams, chamfered with hollow step stops to wing. 1 chamfered door surround in wing. Roof: not inspected; it is possible that 2 jointed crucks survive above the passage and hall.
Listing NGR: SX9912984193
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88511
- 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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