Church Stile House
Church Stile House
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165468
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church Stile House
- Statutory Address:
- Church Stile House
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165468
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church Stile House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church Stile 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:
- Church Stile House
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Exminster
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 94555 87656
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 April 2025 to amend details in the description and Sources and to reformat the text to current standards
SX 98 NW
4/40
EXMINSTER
Exminster
CHURCH STILE
Church Stile House
GV
II
House. Circa late C18. Rendered, probably stone construction; slate roof hipped at ends; end stacks with brick shafts.
The plan is of two adjoining separately-roofed blocks. The front block is single-depth with principal heated rooms, one on either side of a shallow entrance hall with a stair hall behind it. A half-basement contains service rooms. The adjoining rear block is narrow and under a lower roofline and contains a central service stair and further service rooms.
Two storeys and half-basement. Symmetrical three-bay front with two-storey bows with peaked roofs on either side of a central bay with steps with curved iron railings up to a central two-leaf front door under a large semi-circular fanlight with small panes and margin glazing. The windows to left and right in the bows are fine small-pane round headed tripartite sashes with margin glazing. The first floor windows in the bows are C20 replacement plastic pivot-hung sashes in original embrasures. Two brecchia platbands on the front elevation, the lower platband narrower.
Interior: Good circa late C18 interior detail. The open well stair has turned newels, stick balusters and a steeply ramped handrail. The principal room to the right has an Adam style plaster wall frieze and a round-headed recess on the rear wall; C20 chimneypiece. The service stair to the rear is coeval with turned newels and a ramped handrail, other joinery details also survive.
Church stile is an especially attractive example of a circa late C18 gentleman's house, sited to take advantage of a view across the Exe estuary to Topsham. The Exminster tithe map shows the extensive grounds (since decreased in size) with symmetrical blocks in front of the house to right and left, presumably for a coach house and stabling. Diocletian windows surviving in the ranges of houses which now flank the garden in front of the house indicate the positions of these former service blocks. Post 1869 the building was in use as the Devon and Exeter Boys Industrial School (founded 1863).
Listing NGR: SX9455587656
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85457
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post, August 4, 1869
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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