St Peter's School
ST PETER'S SCHOOL, TEDSTONE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165664
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Peter's School
- Statutory Address:
- ST PETER'S SCHOOL, TEDSTONE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165664
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Peter's School
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST PETER'S SCHOOL, TEDSTONE 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:
- ST PETER'S SCHOOL, TEDSTONE LANE
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:
- SY 00208 84523
Details
SY 08 SW LYMPSTONE TEDSTONE LANE, Lympstone
4/65 St Peter's School 11.11.52 - II
Preparatory school, formerly a private residence called Harefield House. Built in the 1830s to designs by the lesser-known William Burgess. Stuccoed; slate roofs concealed behind parapets. Classical Revival. Double depth plan house with the stairhall adjacent to the main rear entrance hall. Service area occupies rooms to the left of the main range. 2 storeys. Front: (i.e. facing west across the Exe Estuary); 1:3:1 bays, parapet throughout, balustraded over side bays, and supported at either end by slightly projecting paired pilasters, panelled between acroteria. Central bays project; the portico has been demolished exposing 4 round-headed niches with 2-light French windows between. 2 pane horned sashes to all windows except to left-hand bay (which is rusticated) which has a small casement. Rear: irregular, with some 12-pane hornless sash windows and 2 others with 3-panes above, 6 below. Parapet incised with Greek key motifs, as are the pilasters flanking entrance. Stacks to rear, and both ends form part of the parapet. Interior: entrance hall with 2 detached Ionic columns; varied plaster cornices throughout; panelled doors and reveals, some with fluted architraves. Cantilever stair with cast-iron balusters.
Listing NGR: SY0020884523
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88565
- 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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