FAIRPARK AND ATTACHED GARDEN AND YARD WALLS

FAIRPARK AND ATTACHED GARDEN AND YARD WALLS, EXETER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197135
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1972
List Entry Name:: FAIRPARK AND ATTACHED GARDEN AND YARD WALLS
Statutory Address:: FAIRPARK AND ATTACHED GARDEN AND YARD WALLS, EXETER ROAD

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Date:: 2003-03-15
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197135
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1972
List Entry Name:: FAIRPARK AND ATTACHED GARDEN AND YARD WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: FAIRPARK AND ATTACHED GARDEN AND YARD WALLS, EXETER ROAD

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FAIRPARK AND ATTACHED GARDEN AND YARD WALLS, EXETER ROAD

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 83899 99899

Details

CREDITON

SX8399 EXETER ROAD 672-1/4/45 (East side (off)) 11/10/72 Fairpark and attached garden and yard walls

GV II

Farmhouse, now house, including garden, farmyard and boundary walls. Circa late C18 with some C20 alterations. Stuccoed, ground floor volcanic trap rubble, brick above;half-hipped slate roof;end stacks with rendered shafts. Plan: Double depth plan, 2 rooms wide with a central entrance into a wide passage containing the stair. Exterior: 2 storeys, attic and cellar. Rusticated quoins. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a central open Tuscan porch; 6-panel front door, top panels glazed, doorcase with panelled reveals. Ground floor and 3 first floor windows late C18/early C19 16-pane sashes. The left return has a louvred opening to the attic. The rear elevation has a large square headed recess in the centre, paved below and incorporating the well. Interior: Includes original panelled doors, moulded cornices, white marble chimney-pieces and a stick baluster stair with mahogany newel posts. Some alteration of first floor partitions. The attic room has a door positioned in front of the louvred opening in the west end. This is said to have been used for drying clothes. Tall walls, partly brick and partly rendered, with rounded corners and slate coping, enclose a vegetable garden to the west, the former farmyard to the east and the rear service yard, which is entered through a doorway from the farm lane. Some of the walls also function as retaining walls flanking the farm lane up to the house from the Exeter Road, where they are impressively tall and make an important contribution to the character of East Town and the east end of Crediton. Roof: King post and strut trusses with metal fixings. Fairpark is an ancient site and is named on a copy terrier of the mid C16 in private hands.

Listing NGR: SX8389999899

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Legacy System:: LBS

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