Sparnham House
SPARNHAM HOUSE, 36, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201034
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Sparnham House
- Statutory Address:
- SPARNHAM HOUSE, 36, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201034
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Sparnham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPARNHAM HOUSE, 36, WEST 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:
- SPARNHAM HOUSE, 36, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashburton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 75454 69771
Details
ASHBURTON
SX7569 WEST STREET 849-1/10/200 (North side) No.36 Sparnham House
GV II
Large house, now divided into flats. Late C18 or early C19. Rendered front, solid in ground storey but probably timber-framed above. Slate-hanging on part of right side and rear walls. Hipped slated roof. Rendered chimneys; that on right side wall with bracketed cap. Double-depth and probably 3 rooms wide; unusual in having entrance hall and staircase at left-hand end. Low rear wing (perhaps services or stabling originally) to left. 3 storeys. 3 windows wide. Main doorway to left has panelled pilasters and triangular pediment on consoles. 6-panelled door, the 2 bottom panels flush. Small C20 door to No 36B inserted to left of it, and to left of that again (cutting through the quoins) the front door of No 38 (qv). Windows much altered and of varying sizes and levels; mostly plain C19 sashes with 1 C20 metal casement; 2 triple sashes in ground storey. Dentilled and bracketed eaves-cornice with fluting between the brackets. Raised quoins to left of upper storeys. Right side wall has 2 barred sashes: 6 panes and 8 panes. Rear wing has wood casements with glazing bars. Interior: only the main entrance hall and staircase inspected. This is mostly Victorian in Georgian style, but some of it may be original. Open-well wood staircase with twisted balusters and shaped step-ends. Door with moulded surround and pediment. Coloured and patterned tiled floor. Boarded and ribbed ceiling. Coloured glass in inner door and stair window.
Listing NGR: SX7544769771
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376178
- 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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