Penhayes
PENHAYES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169670
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Penhayes
- Statutory Address:
- PENHAYES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169670
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Penhayes
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENHAYES
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:
- PENHAYES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kenton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 96305 83233
Details
KENTON SOUTH TOWN, Kenton SX 98 SE
6/259 Penhayes
GV II
Villa, in use as retirement home. Circa 1840-50, said to have been built for the steward to the Powderham Estate (information from owner) and probably contemporary with the alterations to Powderham Castle being carried out for the 10th Earl of Devon by Charles Fowler. Snecked grey limestone; slate roofs, gabled at ends; stone stacks with tall stone chimney shafts in groups with brattished caps. Tudor style. Plan: Double depth main block, approximately rectangular on plan, the north and east elevations facing the garden with an entrance on the south side and a service wing to the north. The main block is double depth with an entrance hall leading into the central stair hall. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window south front to the main block with a gabled porch with a chamfered 2-centred arched stone doorframe, original timber door and decorated floor tiles; projecting stack with set-offs to right of centre with tall paired shafts; 2- and 3-light C19 timber transomed casements with hoodmoulds. The east elevation has 2 projections, gabled to the front; the left hand projection has a canted bay with an ornamental slate roof with wrought iron cresting. C20 door inserted in centre, below the large C19 3-light transomed stair window with a hood mould: other windows C19 2- and 3-light transomed casements with hoodmoulds. The north elevation has a gabled projection to the front at the left with a C20 canted bay copied from the bay on the east side with a French window and 2- and 3-light C19 transomed casements. Interior: Original features survive including plaster cornices, joinery, marble chimneypieces and a C19 main stair with chamfered stick balusters and a ramped wreathed handrail: the service wing includes a stick baluster service stair with a ramped handrail.
Listing NGR: SX9630583233
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85924
- 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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