Wistaria and Attached Front Walls
WISTARIA AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, WESTERN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209827
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Wistaria and Attached Front Walls
- Statutory Address:
- WISTARIA AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, WESTERN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209827
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Wistaria and Attached Front Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- WISTARIA AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, WESTERN ROAD
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:
- WISTARIA AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, WESTERN ROAD
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 82639 00440
Details
CREDITON
SS826000 WESTERN ROAD 672-1/5/179 (South side) 19/03/51 Wistaria and attached front walls
GV II
Small urban villa. Circa 1820, said to have been converted from 3 weavers' cottages (old list description). Roughcast cob; slate roof with serrated timber canopy to the eaves and verges; rear lateral and axial stacks with brick shafts. Plan: L-plan: a single depth main block, 2 rooms wide with a central entrance passage.Rear wing,2 rooms on plan, of possible earlier origins. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-bay front with regular bays treated as 2-storey recesses with plain pilasters and segmental arched heads. Front door in bay to left of centre: doorcase with pilasters on moulded bases withan entablature with a triglyph frieze and dentil moulding below the flat porch hood with a reeded cornice. Small statue of a unicorn on top of porch hood. The other bays have early C19 16-pane windows to the first floor and French windows with margin panes. The left return has a mixture of casements and sashes: tiled porch canopy to doorway. The right return has early C19 sash windows and a serrated timber eaves canopy matching the front elevation. Coped brick garden wall to the front with chamfered granite gate piers with pyramidal caps. The wall matches one to the gardens of Astolat and Woodside (q.v.), the neighbouring houses to the west. Interior: contains original joinery.
Listing NGR: SS8263900440
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387134
- 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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