Westcott House
WESTCOTT HOUSE, RAG LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203853
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Westcott House
- Statutory Address:
- WESTCOTT HOUSE, RAG LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203853
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Westcott House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTCOTT HOUSE, RAG LANE
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:
- WESTCOTT HOUSE, RAG LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rockbeare
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 02985 93426
Details
SY 09 SW ROCKBEARE RAG LANE 3/123 Westcott House
GV II
House. Probably late C18 with late C19 extension. The walls and stacks are stucco, the walls incised as ashlar, but their material, whether brick or stone rubble, is unknown; slate roof. The main block is square in plan with the front facing south-east. It has a double- depth plan comprising a front and back room either side of the entrance hall and main stair. The left (south-western) rooms have individualend stacks and the right rooms are served by an axial stack between serving back-to-back fireplaces. On the left end and set back a little from the main front is the lower service block which is 2 rooms deep and has an end probably kitchen stack. It looks like a late C19 addition but may be a modernisation of service rooms from that time. Main block is 2 storeys with attics and service block is 2 storeys. Main block has symmetrical 3-window front of 12-pane sashes, those on the ground floor are taller than those on the first. Central doorway contains a 4-panel door, an overlight with glazing bars, panelled reveals and flat-roofed open Doric porch. with fluted mortar columns and moulded timber entablature including a modillion cornice. At the top is a plain parapet over a timber modillion eaves cornice. The roof is hipped each end. The right (north-eastern) and rear (north-western) elevations carry round in the same style, both with 3-window fronts of 12-pane sashes, and the former has 2 dormer windows to the attics. To left of the main front the extension has wholly late C19 fenestration with a ground floor canted bay window containing sashes without glazing bars and a first floor horned 12-pane sash. The roof is hipped. The rear of the extension contains 2 ground floor doors and a first floor horned 12-pane sash. Interior: only limited access available at time of survey but enough to see that much original detail remains including panelled doors and window shutters, chimneypieces and moulded plaster cornices. The stair is original; it has an open string, turned balusters with blocks and flat moulded handrail.
Listing NGR: SY0298593426
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352445
- 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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