Pownes House
POWNES HOUSE, 52, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197105
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Pownes House
- Statutory Address:
- POWNES HOUSE, 52, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197105
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Pownes House
- Statutory Address 1:
- POWNES HOUSE, 52, HIGH 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:
- POWNES HOUSE, 52, HIGH 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 82913 00349
Details
CREDITON
SS826000 HIGH STREET 672-1/5/72 (South side) 19/03/51 No.52 Pownes House
GV II*
Town house. Circa 1740. Flemish bond brick to the front elevation, the joints with traces of red mortar but no clear evidence of tuck pointing, English bond brick to the rear; roofed with small tiles, probably replacing slate; stacks with brick shafts with corbelled caps. Plan: Double depth, 2 rooms wide, with a wide central stair hall. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Finely-detailed and very unaltered 5-bay front, the centre 3 bays slightly broken forward. 2 granite steps up to front door with 8 fielded panels. Pedimented doorcase with fluted pilasters, a triglyph frieze and mutules to the pediment. All windows have moulded flush frames and flat guaged brick arches with projecting keyblocks. Original 12-pane sashes throughout, including some panes of crown glass. First floor sashes have thick glazing bars.The rear elevation has a fine rear door, the top panels glazed, with curving panels below the middle rail. One original 12-pane flush frame sash with a segmental head to ground floor left. Other windows are timber sashes and casements, mostly in original embrasures with two blocked windows. Flat roofed projecting rear right bay with 3-round headed glazed 2-pane doors with transoms. Interior: Good interior. Fine open well stair with an open string turned balusters with square necking, shaped brackets and a dado with fielded panels with a moulded rail. Joinery includes deep skirtings panelled shutters and doors with fielded panels; 2-panel doors on the first floor. Original chimney pieces survive including Ashburton marble in ground floor front left room, 2 timber chimney pieces on the first floor. The rear left room has early C18 wall panelling and a timber boxed cornice panelling and cornice reused and extended into Edwardian bay. Chimney piece flanked by fluted pilasters with a triglyph frieze above a single panel: this is so close in design to No 11, Union Road (q.v.) that it suggests the same design. Late C18 chimney piece with plain Italian marble lintel and jambs framed by an Adam style pilasters with a boar hunting scene in a panel in the centre. Circa 1860 sencaustic tiling throughout the entrance passage. First floor rooms to front flank a pair of closets. Service stair to attic, formerly for servants. Roof: 3 trusses with threaded purlins and vertical posts from the tie beams to the principals; struts above the collars, all fixed with pegs. A very complete mid C18 town house.
Listing NGR: SS8291300349
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387021
- 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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