Abbotswell House, Including Wall, Railings and Gate Piers
ABBOTSWELL HOUSE, INCLUDING WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE PIERS, CREST HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209055
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Abbotswell House, Including Wall, Railings and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- ABBOTSWELL HOUSE, INCLUDING WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE PIERS, CREST HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209055
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Abbotswell House, Including Wall, Railings and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBOTSWELL HOUSE, INCLUDING WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE PIERS, CREST HILL
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:
- ABBOTSWELL HOUSE, INCLUDING WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE PIERS, CREST HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckfastleigh
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 73543 66014
Details
BUCKFASTLEIGH
SX7366 CREST HILL 1011-1/6/60 (West side) No.10 Abbotswell House, including wall, railings and gate piers
II
House, in use as retirement home. c1860. Rendered; slate roof, gabled at ends; stacks with rendered shafts. Plan: double-depth plan, 2 rooms wide with set-back block at right end. EXTERIOR: symmetrical 3-bay front with deep eaves. Tuscan porch with entablature with dentil cornice. 6-panel door with plain overlight. 4-pane hornless sashes, 2 to the ground floor. INTERIOR not inspected but likely to be of interest. Subsidiary features: contemporary cast-iron railings to area in front of house have pierced spear finials. Short section of ramped rendered wall at left end; square-section gate piers with sunk mouldings, moulded cornices and pineapple finials to right of front elevation.
Listing NGR: SX7354366014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392255
- 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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