EXELEIGH SOUTH, EXELEIGH HOUSE, NUMBER 3 EXELEIGH, BELL HOUSE AND EXESTOWE EAST

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1169720
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: EXELEIGH SOUTH, EXELEIGH HOUSE, NUMBER 3 EXELEIGH, BELL HOUSE AND EXESTOWE EAST
Statutory Address:: EXELEIGH SOUTH, EXELEIGH HOUSE, NUMBER 3 EXELEIGH, BELL HOUSE AND EXESTOWE EAST

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1169720
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1988
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: EXELEIGH SOUTH, EXELEIGH HOUSE, NUMBER 3 EXELEIGH, BELL HOUSE AND EXESTOWE EAST
Statutory Address 1:: EXELEIGH SOUTH, EXELEIGH HOUSE, NUMBER 3 EXELEIGH, BELL HOUSE AND EXESTOWE EAST

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: EXELEIGH SOUTH, EXELEIGH HOUSE, NUMBER 3 EXELEIGH, BELL HOUSE AND EXESTOWE EAST

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Starcross
National Grid Reference:: SX 97447 82504

Details

SX 98 SE KENTON STARCROSS

1519/6/265 Exeleigh South, Exeleigh House, No.3 Exeleigh, Bell House and Exestowe East

2.10.88

GV II

Villa divided into 5 houses. Described as 1847-8, enlarged in 1877 in White's Devon (1879), built for Sir J. L. Duntze, but said to be earlier, Exeleigh South and Exeleigh House are shown in an engraving of the line of the Atmospheric Railway, 1845-48. Bathstone ashlar, very fine, with a hipped slate roof behind a parapet; stacks with rendered shafts. No.3 Exeleigh, Bell House and Exestowe East are rendered. PLAN: Altered when the house was divided in the late 1940s. Exeleigh South and Exeleigh House are the principal rooms of an overall L plan, additional rooms and the services in a NW right wing (No.3 Exeleigh, Bell House and Exestowe East) with a stable yard behind (another separate property and not included in the listing) .The principal block, facing south east across the Exe estuary has a main entrance in the right return (Exeleigh House), formerly into an entrance hall containing the stair with a main sitting room and morning room facing south east and subsidiary rooms to the rear. The division has altered the entrance hall and stair but the 2 main rooms survive intact on the ground floor. Exeleigh South is now entered on the left return. The NW wing, presumably part of the 1877 additions, includes a former billiard room in Bell House. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3 bay south east front to main range with a plinth, moulded cornice below the coped parapet and a moulded platband at first floor level. The centre of the house is slightly broken forward with pilasters and a canted bay in the middle, clasping pilasters to extreme left and right. The canted bay has plate glass timber sashes, the windows in the left and right bays also have plate glass timber sashes and moulded stone architraves, ground floor window right (Exeleigh House) converted to a C20 French window with timber glazing bars. The right NE return (Exeleigh House) is 3 bays, the centre broken forward with left and right pilasters and a central portico with Greek Doric columns with an entablature, the portico glazed in. 2 first floor oriels to left and right with timber plate glass sashes. 2 ground floor windows with moulded stone architraves and plate glass timber sashes. The left SW return (Exeleigh South) has a large tripartite window on the first floor with plate glass timber sashes and a probably late C19 9-bay conservatory adjoining at the left. No.3 Exeleigh has C19 and C20 timber sashes, Bell House which projects forward from No.3 on the north east side has a central courtyard with a bellcote. End bay to right is Exestowe East. INTERIOR: the black and white paved floor of the entrance and stair hall survives in both houses. Exeleigh South retains 2 good mid C19 black marble chimneypieces and a grand, probably late C19 or Edwardian, stair with turned balusters. Both houses preserve some original panelled doors with moulded doorcases and plaster cornices to the principal rooms. The house was owned by the Studd family, who also owned Oxton House, prior to being divided in the late 1940s. A substantial villa with high quality exterior detail set back from the road behind large gardens. Bibliography: 9475 Whites Directory, 1879

Listing NGR: SX9744782504

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 85930
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Whites Directory' in Whites Directory, (1879)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.