Wildersmouth Villa
WILDERSMOUTH VILLA, MARINE PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203040
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Wildersmouth Villa
- Statutory Address:
- WILDERSMOUTH VILLA, MARINE PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203040
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Wildersmouth Villa
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILDERSMOUTH VILLA, MARINE PLACE
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:
- WILDERSMOUTH VILLA, MARINE PLACE
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 51931 47714
Details
ILFRACOMBE
SS5147 MARINE PLACE 853-1/6/98 Wildersmouth Villa 12/03/90
II
House. Early or mid C19. Rendered, solid walls. Tarred slated roofs, hipped and with centre valley; asbestos slates on rear roof slope. Rendered chimney on each side wall. PLAN: Square, double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Front elevation 3-windows-wide with rusticated ground storey and corner pilasters, the latter rising to a small entablature at eaves level. Square bay windows in ground storey with stone mullions and transoms; small-paned glazing with margin-panes. Each bay has a pitched roof upon which sits a smaller bay window serving the second storey. These upper windows are also mullioned and have gabled, pedimented roofs rising above eaves level; each light has 4 panes, the topmost one round-headed. Single-storeyed entrance porch to right, set well back. Round-arched doorway with moulded archivolt and imposts; door with 2 moulded panels, patterned fanlight. Moulded top cornice and shaped blocking-course. Right-hand side wall plain, except for record-arched window in second storey; this has a sash window with 6 panes in the lower sash and patterned glazing in the upper one. The wall is partly blocked by the adjoining house (Pengwern), not included. INTERIOR not inspected. The Ilfracombe tithe map of 1840 shows a building on this site. The villa is the best of the scatter of early and mid C19 houses that occupied the hillside north of the town before the building developments of the late C19. (Ilfracombe Tithe Map: Devon Record Office: 1840-).
Listing NGR: SS5193147714
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390235
- 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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