Bell House
BELL HOUSE, 50, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165711
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bell House
- Statutory Address:
- BELL HOUSE, 50, EAST STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00069/26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165711
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bell House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELL HOUSE, 50, EAST STREET
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:
- BELL HOUSE, 50, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bovey Tracey
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 81947 78594
Details
BOVEY TRACEY EAST STREET (north side), SX 8178 Bovey Tracey
11/59 - No 50 Bell House
GV II
House. Late C16 or early C17, remodelled early C19. Solid, roughcast walls. Slated roof with clay ridge-tiles, hipped at left-hand end. Small rendered chimneystack in left-hand gable-wall. On ridge near the right-hand end a late C16 or C17 granite ashlar stack with tapered top. Position of stack in relation to an early door suggests that this may have been a house of traditional 3-room and cross- passage plan with hall stack backing on to the passage; lower end (now No. 52) rebuilt as a separate house. 2 storeys. 3-window front. At right-hand end of ground storey an early C19 glazed door with 12 panes in the upper part. Wood door- frame is late C16 or early C17, ovolo-moulded with cranked head and urn-stops. To left of doorway in ground storey a 3-light wood casement window with 2 panes per light. At left-hand end a large fixed sash of 15 panes. In second storey the 2 left-hand windows are 6-paned wood sashes. The right-hand window is a small 2-light wood casement with 2 panes per sash. Left-hand gable-wall, the present entrance front, is 2 windows wide. Doorway to right has 4 panels, the 2 lower panels flush, and a moulded brass knocker. To left of it is a single-storeyed canted bay window with a slated pent roof. In second storey are 2 wooden 6-paned sash windows. The garden path outside this front has an old cobbled surface. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX8194778594
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 84502
- 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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