Hendham House
HENDHAM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169134
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hendham House
- Statutory Address:
- HENDHAM HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169134
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Hendham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HENDHAM HOUSE
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:
- HENDHAM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 74311 50966
Details
WOODLEIGH HENDHAM SX 75 SW 2/123 Hendham House (formerly listed as Lower Hendham 26.1.67 Farm House) II Shown on OS map as Lower Hendham. Shown on OS map as Lower Hendham. Detached house. Dated 1779. Rubble, rendered to ground floor front, slate-hung left return wall; asbestos-cement slate roof. Compact hipped block with symmetrical front but staircase centred to left wall, also upper flight to centre back. Three storeys and basement, 3-window front; 12 and 16-pane sashes to stone voussoir at first and second floors. Ground-floor has lofty glazing-bar French doors flanking central 6-panel part-glazed door in panelled reveals to elliptical fanlight. Across whole frontage to ground floor a flat-roofed veran- dah carried on 8 very slender fluted wood Doric columns with slight dentilled entablature; last bay to right enclosed in original slight glazing, left end with part-glazed door under transom-light at head of short flight of stone stairs. All set to stone terrace with central flight of 6 stone steps with nosings. Left return has 12 and 16 pane sashes, and lofty stair sash. Right return has 12 over 16 over 20-pane sashes, also a 16-pane below two blocked openings, and date-stone; back includes a very wide 2-panel door under lofty stair window. Door to basement in east end. Stack, loft-back. Interior: many goods fieldedpanel doors, shutters; dog-leg stair with turned balusters, decorative tread-ends, all painted except stripped handrail. Basement includes large segmental brick fireplace, central spiral wood staircase, slate flags, but some cobbled flooring to front part. The wide 16-pane sashes may be replace- ments, or very early examples if the date-stone is to be believed.
Listing NGR: SX7431150966
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99574
- 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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