Henley House
HENLEY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197120
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Henley House
- Statutory Address:
- HENLEY HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197120
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1992
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Henley House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HENLEY 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:
- HENLEY HOUSE
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:
- SX 83426 99428
Details
CREDITON
SX8399 Holland House 672-1/4/3
II
Shown on OS map as Park. House, now institution. 1840 (information from the occupier). Roughcast stone rubble; tarred slate roof; chimneys with rendered octagonal shafts with some old pots. Plan: double depth with central entrance and rear kitchen wing roofed at right angles. Exterior: 2 storeys. Painted stuccoed quoins; roof with deep eaves; mostly original windows. Asymmetrical 3 window front with the gable ends of 2 wings to right and left and the porch set back between them. Painted qouins to first floor windows. Gothic Revival embattled porch with offset diagonal buttresses and a Tudor-arched chamfered outer doorway, Tudor arched window in left return. Above the porch a 2-light small-pane timber casement. The left hand gable has one ground and one first floor 12-pane sash, similar first floor window to the right hand gable. Ground floor right is a canted bay with a plain parapet with a moulded string below. Windows glazed with 12-pane sash in the centre, 8-pane in the outer lights. The right return continues in the same style and includes a tall stair window, cut across by the stair and glazed with a small pane sash, some glazing bars missing. French windows with low panels and an overlight with glazing bars are also probably original. The left return has an introduced C20 French window but the other 16-pane sashes are original. Rear elevation has a brick lean-to for additional service rooms beyond (north of) the kitchen wing. Interior: Features of interest include chimney-pieces, plaster cornices, a stick baluster stair with a mahogany handrail and newels (parts of balustrade renewed) and original paved floors to some of the rear service rooms.
Listing NGR: SX8342699428
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386947
- 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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