Oliver House
OLIVER HOUSE, 6 AND 7, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197084
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Oliver House
- Statutory Address:
- OLIVER HOUSE, 6 AND 7, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197084
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Oliver House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLIVER HOUSE, 6 AND 7, NORTH STREET
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:
- OLIVER HOUSE, 6 AND 7, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 83306 00376
Details
CREDITON
SS826000 NORTH STREET 672-1/5/126 (East side) 11/10/72 Nos.6 & 7 Oliver House
GV II
House, divided into house and offices. Early C18 origins with late C18/early C19 and C20 alterations. No 6 roughcast, No 7 plastered, probably stone but said to include some cob; slate roof; stacks with brick shafts. Plan: Approximately rectangular double depth plan, originally one house. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4:3 window front with a gabled slate roof, the roofline shallower over the right hand bay of No 7 (the former cartway). No 6 has sprocketted eaves with a moulded eaves cornice. Central entrance with an early C19 doorway in the centre. Doorcase with panelled pilasters with a rounded vertical moulding and entablature with cornice. The reveals may be panelled below a plain board. 5-panel door with an overlight with geometric glazing bars. Bootscraper to right of door. 12-pane horned sash to ground floor right. Ground floor left a 16-pane sash, the lower light reglazed as 1-pane. Four first floor windows, all glazed with 12-pane sashes. The right hand window has an early C18 moulded architrave; horned sash to the right. The 2 right hand windows are early C19 with old glass. The rear elevation includes 3 first and 2 ground floor early C19 sashes. Interior: Ground floor only inspected. Stair with stick balusters and mahogany handrail. No 7 has deep eaves with moulded eaves brackets. Rear axial stack, shaft of front stack removed. Doorway to right of centre with a large late C18 doorcase with panelled pilasters and a panel over the lintel below paired brackets to the cornice; plain revels, possibly boarded over panelling. 6-panel door with fielded panels and a deep overlight. To the far right a segmental-headed doorway replacing the former cartway. 3 ground floor and 3 first floor 12-pane sashes. The rear elevation has a tall round-headed stair window with spoke glazing bars and margin panes to the main block. The rear left addition has a dentil cornice and 2 early C19 small-pane French windows into the rear garden. Interior: Late C18 open well stair with mahogany newels and handrail and replaced stick balusters. Plaster cornices, inlcuding the stair well which has an C18 ceiling rose. Joinery includes C18 doors with fielded panels and moulded doorcases.
Listing NGR: SS8330600376
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387076
- 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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