Blagdon House Including Service Block and Garden Walls
BLAGDON HOUSE INCLUDING SERVICE BLOCK AND GARDEN WALLS, BLAGDON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208206
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Blagdon House Including Service Block and Garden Walls
- Statutory Address:
- BLAGDON HOUSE INCLUDING SERVICE BLOCK AND GARDEN WALLS, BLAGDON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208206
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Blagdon House Including Service Block and Garden Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLAGDON HOUSE INCLUDING SERVICE BLOCK AND GARDEN WALLS, BLAGDON
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:
- BLAGDON HOUSE INCLUDING SERVICE BLOCK AND GARDEN WALLS, BLAGDON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 83897 00385
Details
CREDITON
SS834000 BLAGDON 672-1/6/8 (North side) 19/03/51 Blagdon House including service block and garden walls
GV II
Small farmhouse, now house, including service block to the rear and tall walls to the gardens and rear yard. c.1800 with some alterations of the 1950s (information from the owner). Flemish bond brick, the front elevation rendered;gabled slate roof;end stacks with brick shafts. Service block roughcast, slate roof, garden walls roughcast cob on stone rubble footings with slate coping. Plan: double- depth, 2 rooms wide,with a central entrance. Exterior: 2 storeys with attic and cellar. Symmetrical 3-bay front with cornice with moulded brackets. Central Tuscan timber doorcase with an open pediment; steps up to a 6-panel front door with panelled reveals and a pretty fanlight with a central roundel with a flower motif. 2 ground and 3 first floor original windows: all 16-pane sashes except first floor centre, which is 12-pane. Rendered curtain walls about 3m high with slate coping adjoin the front elevation to left and right: each wall contains a round headed niche for garden seats, that to left broken through by a doorway to the rear of the house and the rear niche projections with conical slate roofs. Tall garden walls enclose the front garden completely, except on the boundary with Exhibition Road. The rear elevation has a round-headed stair window in the centre with glazing bars and margin panes. Two first-floor rear C19 16-pane sashes, the ground floor windows are mostly C20 timber casements with high transoms. The rear service yard is enclosed by tall walls. Interior: Not inspected. Said to have been rather altered in the 1950s but contains original joinery including shutters. Rear service block, 2 storeys, has a gable-ended roof parallel to the house and a stack at the left (west) end. Doorway to the right; one pointed arched ground floor window with leaded panes and Y tracery to the left; pigeon holes under the eaves. A lofted building with a monopitch roof, used formerly as a milk collection point, adjoins the service block at the left (west) end. Interior: Has a plain mid/late C19 fireplace with a bread oven; loft floor removed. The building could have provided additional cooking facilities or may have been used as accommodation for a farm labourer. Blagdon is an ancient site. The present building is a good example of a c.1800 gentleman's farmhouse.
Listing NGR: SS8389700385
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386956
- 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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