PITT HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1165950
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1983
List Entry Name:: PITT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: PITT HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1165950
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1983
List Entry Name:: PITT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: PITT HOUSE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: PITT HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Hennock
National Grid Reference:: SX 85187 78014

Details

HENNOCK SX 87 NE

6/107 Pitt House - 24.3.83 GV II*

Large country house.1841. By Scott and Moffat. Squared and dressed grey limestone, granite plinth and quoins, cream limestone dressings to windows, doors, strings, gables; slated roof. Compact main block symmetrically composed to principal, south-east front, another block containing billiard rooms and ballroom across courtyard to north-west added c.1880, linked by single-storey wing, right; former coach house, now dwelling at west corner of main blocks, same style and detailing as house. South-east front E-plan, Jacobean style 3-gabled 2½ storey, two-storey crenellated bows to each wing with 8-light transomed windows in plate glass, some lights with thin horizontal bars; 3-light oriel in projecting central porch, on moulded corbel, and with crenellated top. Wall plane between wings and porch, 3- light ground floor, 2-light first floor windows with mullion and transom, and in small decorative gables very small single light openings. In Dutch gables left and right, 2-light mullion and transom windows. Ground floor windows and door contained under continuous moulded drip, stepped up over openings, and upper level of bow windows with string continued as coping to gables. Triple ashlar stacks with moulded skirt and cappings at ridge either side of porch, and double stacks similar, to end gables. 2-leaf part glazed main door set back in porch in Tudor arch. Rear wing containing ballroom and billiard room has square turret with cross gabled roof, then main run of wing, approached by flight of 10 granite steps externally to fine pair of oak panelled doors in tudor arch with stopped drip and small plain shields; roof with decorative open parapet, large multi-light mullioned and transomed window at south-west end with small diamond panes in rectilinear margins. Coach house wing with central gable, and small end cross-gabled turret all in detail as main block. Interiors were being converted to flats at the time of re-survey. A few features were apparently being kept, including the main open well stair with heavy square moulded newels, square tapered balusters and moulded handrail. This is a consistent carefully organised and rich design by G G Scott and W B Moffat, still in largely unchanged external form at the time of the survey.

Listing NGR: SX8518778014

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Legacy System number:: 84554
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.