Fortescue House
FORTESCUE HOUSE, 5, FORTESCUE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203025
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Fortescue House
- Statutory Address:
- FORTESCUE HOUSE, 5, FORTESCUE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203025
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Fortescue House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORTESCUE HOUSE, 5, FORTESCUE ROAD
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:
- FORTESCUE HOUSE, 5, FORTESCUE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilfracombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 51703 47649
Details
ILFRACOMBE
SS5147 FORTESCUE ROAD 853-1/6/51 (East side) 12/03/90 No.5 Fortescue House
GV II
Detached house. Early C19, altered late C19. Rendered, solid walls. Slated roof, hipped at left-hand-end. Rendered chimney on right-hand gable. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 3-window symmetrical front. Wooden entrance porch (now infilled) in centre of ground storey with plain shafted Tuscan columns; entablature with triglyphs having flowers in the metopes. C20 glazed door with patterned late C19 fanlight above; original patterned fanlight over inner door. Late C19 ornamental iron cresting in Gothic style on top. Above the porch is a plain sash window with one upright glazing-bar to each sash. Outer windows in ground and second storeys have canted wood bays with steep slated roofs, these finished with iron crestings like that on the porch; sash windows, those in centre with one upright glazing-bar each. Third storey windows have barred sashes, the outer windows with 8 panes below and 4 above, the centre one with 6 panes below and 3 above; in front of the latter is a guard rail like that over the porch. Moulded wood board below the eaves. Left-hand-side all has 8-paned sash window in ground storey. Wooden canted bay window in second storey with sash windows having one horizontal glazing bar to each sash. Set back to the left is a single- storeyed, flat-roofed addition of late C20 appearance, except that 2 of the windows appear to have sashes of late C19 date, with 1 upright glazing-bar per sash. INTERIOR not inspected, but immediately inside the front door is the original wooden staircase with thin square balusters, voluted at the foot of the stair. A building appears to occupy this site on the Ilfracombe tithe map of 1840. (Ilfracombe Tithe Map: 1840-).
Listing NGR: SS5170347649
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390193
- 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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