Frayne House
FRAYNE HOUSE, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214205
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Frayne House
- Statutory Address:
- FRAYNE HOUSE, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214205
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Frayne House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRAYNE HOUSE, EAST STREET
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:
- FRAYNE HOUSE, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Molton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 74060 29708
Details
NORTH MOLTON EAST STREET (south side), SS 7429-7529 19/147 Frayne House - GV II House. Early C18, remodelled and enlarged in the mid to late C19. Rendered, probably over stone rubble. Gable-ended scantle-slate roof. Wooden eaves cornice to front with widely - spaced paired dentils. C19 red-brick stacks, with chamfered corners and corbelled caps. Plan: L-plan. Three-room plan early C19 range parellel to road (facing north) with external end stacks, and wing to rear of right-hand end with integral lateral stack. Staircase in rear wing to rear of right-hand room. Later C19 and C19 remodelling including addition of bay windows, porch etc. Short one-storey wing to rear of left- hand end. Two storeys. Exterior: Asymmetrical 4-bay front; mid to late C19 margin-light sashes with cills. Two mid to late C19 ground floor flat-roofed square bays, that to left of 2:3:2 lights and that to right of 3:5:3 lights. Mid to late C19 five-panelled door in second bay from right (beaded-flush lower panels, central moulded panel with raised centre and 2 leaded glazed moulded upper panels), moulded architrave and wooden Tuscan porch with 2 columns, pilasters to rear, frieze and cornice, and panelled soffit. Rear wing with early C19 twelve-pane glazing bar sash to right-hand side, lighting staircase. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS7406029708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398965
- 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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