The Gables and Attached Garden Walls and Gate Piers
THE GABLES AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS, BELMONT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208071
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Gables and Attached Garden Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- THE GABLES AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS, BELMONT ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208071
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Gables and Attached Garden Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GABLES AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS, BELMONT ROAD
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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:
- THE GABLES AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS, BELMONT 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 51399 47238
Details
ILFRACOMBE
SS5147 BELMONT ROAD 853-1/6/15 The Gables and attached garden walls 17/05/73 and gate piers
GV II
Substantial detached villa. c1857. Built by Joseph Friendship for Richard Bligh. Picturesque Gothic style. MATERIALS: random rubble with painted stone quoins. Slated multi-gable roofs with cresting; elaborately carved bargeboards, all having slightly differently patterned pendants, with finials and, on southern gable, 3 tall rubble stacks with stone quoins at angles. PLAN: asymmetrical house with main entrance on eastern facade. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic storey plus 3 single-storey gabled projections (one C20) to south. Irregular fenestration. Main, eastern facade of 2-window projecting gabled bay to left, single window entrance bay and single window bay with large gabled dormer to right. Large projecting rubble entrance porch with steeply pitched slate roof with elaborately carved bargeboards having trefoil pendants and finial; trefoil lights to each return. Pointed arch doorway with square-headed panelled and studded door; fanlight with margin glazing and V tracery, pointed sidelights to door. Transom and mullion casements to ground floor with lugged surrounds; upper floors have pointed casements with lugged surrounds apart from window above entrance which is square-headed. Other elevations in similar style; north elevation has ground floor canted transom and mullion bay window with mutule cornice and elaborate cast-iron cresting of trefoil design. Flat-roofed staircase projection, having pointed window with margin and Y tracery, in angle of north and west elevations. INTERIOR retains orginal open well stair with turned balusters and cast-iron newel. Principal rooms retain plaster cornices and ceilings plus one fire-surround, the mantel shelf on shafted corbels. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached random rubble garden walls, on the west stone capped with square-headed doorway having studded door and then sweeping inwards to form main entrance with stone quoined gate piers having cross-gabled caps with trefoil gable ends; timber gate of field type. The Gables forms a group with the Church of the Holy Trinity (qv) and the churchyard lychgate. It is a good example of this style of house, notable for its enriched detail.
Listing NGR: SS5139947238
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390154
- 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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