Drewston House
DREWSTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169160
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Drewston House
- Statutory Address:
- DREWSTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169160
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Drewston House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DREWSTON 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:
- DREWSTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Drewsteignton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 74204 90835
Details
SX 79 SW DREWSTEIGNTON
5/36 Drewston House
II
House. Circa 1830 - 40, parts may be earlier. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings stone rubble up to first floor level in the main block; stone rubble stacks topped with plastered brick; thatch roof, slate to rear and outbuildings. Plan: 1-shaped building. The main block faces east. It has a 2-room plan with central entrance hall and main staircase. These are the principal rooms and have gable-end stacks. Integral outshots across the rear. Service rooms on left end; first a 2-room block, lower than the main block, on the same axis but set back slightly from the front of it. It has a gable-end kitchen stack backing onto a crosswing (even lower) projecting forward. 2 storeys. Exterior: tall main block has a symmetrical 4-window front of original ground floor 12-pane sashes and first floor 9-pane sashes. Central doorway contains the original part-glazed 4-panel door behind a flat-roofed porch with fluted Doric columns and moulded entablature. Porch stands on a flight of granite steps. Each end of this front have flat stucco pilasters. Plain eaves on a series of shaped timber brackets and the original gutter has cast iron lions head joints. Roof is tall, steeply- pitched and gable-ended. The kitchen section has a nearly symmetrical 2-window section containing 3 sashes with margin panes and a central 6-panel door. The service crosswing contains casements with glazing bars. Interior: has been very little modernised since the C19 and contains most of its original joinery and other detail.
Listing NGR: SX7420490835
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94832
- 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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