Bronte House
BRONTE HOUSE, EXMOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165381
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bronte House
- Statutory Address:
- BRONTE HOUSE, EXMOUTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165381
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bronte House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRONTE HOUSE, EXMOUTH 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:
- BRONTE HOUSE, EXMOUTH 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 99988 84067
Details
SX 98 NE LYMPSTONE EXMOUTH ROAD (east side), Lympstone 5/31 Bronte House - - II
Large detached house now divided into 2 dwellings. Late C16, much enlarged and altered in C19. Cob and stone, roughcast; gabled-end slate roof. Formerly a 3- room, cross-passage plan house, extended to form overall a double-depth plan. Older range heated by left-hand external end stack (now redundant) presumably to the service end; it is possible that the hall was heated by an axial stack backing onto passage which has since been dismantled but which may account for an odd internal space between the two left-hand rooms that rises through the full height of the house. Later axial and end stacks to C19 extension. All with brick shafts. 2 storeys. Front: (old range, facing south): 3-window range, each bay separately gabled with wavy bargeboarding and apex pendants. Fancy cast-iron snow guards: 2-pane horned sash windows to first floor. Tripartite door (to hall) with moulded architrave, the uprights with capitals; tripartite horned sash window to inner room, the upper sashes with curved corners. Good open-work cast iron verandah with elaborate uprights and decorated spandrels. Asymmetrical 3-gabled window range to rear, horned sashes to first floor, casement windows below, with gabled porch, glazed with margin panes. Roof: 7-bay roof, principals halved and crossed at apex, collar halved; all pegged.
Listing NGR: SX9998884067
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88531
- 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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