Penton, Including Garden Walls and Stable Block
PENTON, INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS AND STABLE BLOCK, PENTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209545
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Penton, Including Garden Walls and Stable Block
- Statutory Address:
- PENTON, INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS AND STABLE BLOCK, PENTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209545
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Penton, Including Garden Walls and Stable Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENTON, INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS AND STABLE BLOCK, PENTON 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:
- PENTON, INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS AND STABLE BLOCK, PENTON LANE
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 83752 00524
Details
CREDITON
SS8300 PENTON LANE 672-1/3/142 (East side) 11/10/72 Penton,including garden walls and stable block
GV II
Small villa including garden walls and stable block. Circa 1820, incorporating a possibly earlier cottage; stable block late C19. Roughcast cob; slate roof, hipped at ends; 2 rear stacks. Stable block brick. Plan: single depth, 2 rooms wide, with a central entrance. The ground slopes sharply away to the right (east) and a second block to the right is lower down and faces into a service yard. A front right wing with a monopitch roof at right angles to the main block provides extra accommodation over a service room (possibly an old dairy) which faces into the service yard. The yard is completed by a Victorian stable block, parallel to the wing. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-bay front with regular fenestration. 4-panel front door to left of centre, the top panels glazed with geometric glazing bars, doorcase with panelled reveals. 2 French windows to the left, one to the right: 2-leaf with small panes, the top panes with Gothick arched glazing bars to the heads. First floor window left and 2 right hand windows are 12-pane sashes with Gothick arched panes at the top. 6-pane casement above the front door with similar Gothick treatment to the panes. The inner return of the wing is stuccoed with deep eaves with a boarded soffit and paired eaves brackets. 4-bay verandah on cast iron columns with a lead tent roof and a 5th similar bay on the south end return. The service yard has pitched stone paving. Tall, rendered garden walls to the garden to the south has tiled coping. Interior: Original features include panelled doors and shutters.
Listing NGR: SS8375200524
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387092
- 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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