Bridgethorpe and Front Wall to Garden

BRIDGETHORPE AND FRONT WALL TO GARDEN, STRAND

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1165591
Date first listed:
11-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:
Bridgethorpe and Front Wall to Garden
Statutory Address:
BRIDGETHORPE AND FRONT WALL TO GARDEN, STRAND
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1165591
Date first listed:
11-Nov-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
21-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:
Bridgethorpe and Front Wall to Garden
Statutory Address 1:
BRIDGETHORPE AND FRONT WALL TO GARDEN, STRAND

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
BRIDGETHORPE AND FRONT WALL TO GARDEN, STRAND

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 98985 84137

Details

SX 98 SE LYMPSTONE STRAND (north side), Lympstone

5/54 Bridgethorpe and front wall 11.ll.52 to garden (formerly listed under Station Road) GV II

Detached house. Early C18; front bays added and other alterations, circa 1840. Brick in Flemish bond, blocked stuccoed to front; hipped slate roof. Single-depth plan house, with principal room to either side of central entrance hall containing stairs, with a rear service wing, forming overall an L-shaped plan; later C19 extensions behind main range. External end stacks with set-offs; internal end stack to wing. 2 storeys. Front: almost symmetrical 3-window range; rusticated quoins; moulded gutter box; 3 full flat-roofed dormers; 2 storeyed canted bays flank central porch, 8:12:8 pane hornless sashes to each floor; 12-pane hornless sash window above porch which has moulded cornice, Ionic square-section columns, and low panelled plinth side walls; half-glazed panelled door. 2 early C18 windows survive on the first floor of left- hand side elevation, each of 2 lights, mullions and transoms pegged; two 2-light C19 casement windows under segmental arches; ground floor with 16-pane hornless sash window under similar arch. C19 doorway with Gothick arched panelling, under simple canopy on shaped brackets. Interior: early C19 joinery; open well stair with stick balusters and ramped handrail. A-profile roof trusses. This listing includes the brick front garden wall on stone plinth, which has evidence of a central entrance, now blocked.

Listing NGR: SX9898584137

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Legacy System number:
88554
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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