Woodlands
WOODLANDS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168627
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Woodlands
- Statutory Address:
- WOODLANDS
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05348/33
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168627
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Woodlands
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODLANDS
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:
- WOODLANDS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kenn
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 92219 85435
Details
KENN SX 98 SW
5/148 Woodlands
- II
House, used as nursing home. Remodelled in 1836 by Anthony Salvin for William Ley, cost £3,100 (information from Dr Jill Allibone). Stone rubble with red sandstone dressings, rear elevation partly shingle-hung in the late C20. Asbestos slate roof, gabled at ends and gabled to the front at the right, behind parapets ; projecting left end stack with low stone shaft, axial stack with similar shaft to right of centre ; projecting right end stack with set-offs, Plan: Approximately T plan : the main block rectangular with a central entrance into a heated stair hall with a short projection to the front at the right end. Salvin is said to have added the hall, dining room and drawing room on the north side, adding the oak staircase and 2 bedrooms. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 7 bay north front with regular fenestration, a central 2 storey porch and the 2 right-hand bays projecting to the front with a 2 storey canted bay window. Red sandstone cornice below parapet, plinth and jambs and lintels to the windows. The parapet rises in the centre of the porch with decayed armorial bearings of the ley family. Front door with hollow-chamfered Tudor arched doorframe; pilasters to left and right of the porch rising to a red sandstone platband at first floor level. Fenestration of plate glass 2-pane sashes, the ground floor windows transomed. The right return has 2 C20 French windows on the ground floor and first floor sashes. Interior: Not thoroughly inspected. C19 Tudor stair in stair hall. Salvin built Mamhead House in Mamhead parish, a few miles to the north east, in 1828- 33 for Sir Ralph Newman, bart. (qv Dawlish College). '
Listing NGR: SX9221985435
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85815
- 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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