Lyneham House
LYNEHAM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1169295
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lyneham House
- Statutory Address:
- LYNEHAM HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1169295
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lyneham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LYNEHAM 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:
- LYNEHAM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Yealmpton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 57880 53454
Details
SX 55 SE YEALMPTON LYNEHAM 4/221 23/4/52 Lyneham House
GV I
Country house in landscaped grounds. Circa 1699 to 1703 for Courtney Crocker, with reused circa C16 material in the basement. Granite ashlar. Rusticated granite quoins and band at first floor level. Slate hipped roof with large woooden modillion eaves cornice and wooden balustrade above. Nearly square double depth plan. Two storeys, basement and attic. 3:1:3 bays. Centre bay breaks forward with doorway north granite half columns supporting open segmental pediment. East and west sides five bays and without centre break but with similar doorway on the east side. Rear (north) elevation seven bays. Glazed and panelled double doors. Sash windows with glazing bars and straight heads with keystones. Flat roof dormers with cornices and sashes. Lead rainwater heads dated 1768. Two large granite chimney stacks symmetrically situated, and with quoins and plain caps. Stone rubble basement has C16 two-light windows in recessed and chamfered granite frames, and moulded elliptically arched doorway with carved spandrels. These granite details are probably reused material from an earlier house on the site. Interior: was not accessible at the time of survey, 1983. The interior is said to have been restored recently. The original plaster cornices, bolection moulded panelling and joinery are said to be largely intact, including two staircases, the principal one having two balusters per tread. The drawing room has circa 1770 chimneypiece and dining room is said to have carved panelling an chimneypiece. Lyneham was the seat of the old Devon family of Crocker. A photograph in the NMR of a drawing dated b716 by Edmund Prideaux, shows formal gardens in front and flanking pavilions. The orangery is also depicted. The drawing is now at Prideaux Place, Cornwall. Reference: Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 76, 1944, 102-3.
Listing NGR: SX5788053454
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100499
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 76, (1944), 102-3
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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