Furzeham Court House Including Garden Walls and Gate

FURZEHAM COURT HOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS AND GATE, STATION HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218415
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:
Furzeham Court House Including Garden Walls and Gate
Statutory Address:
FURZEHAM COURT HOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS AND GATE, STATION HILL

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218415
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
18-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:
Furzeham Court House Including Garden Walls and Gate
Statutory Address 1:
FURZEHAM COURT HOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS AND GATE, STATION HILL

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
FURZEHAM COURT HOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS AND GATE, STATION HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Torbay (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Brixham
National Grid Reference:
SX 92334 56195

Details

BRIXHAM

SX9256SW STATION HILL, Lower Brixham 1946-1/10/213 (North West side) 10/01/75 Furzeham Court House including garden walls and gate (Formerly Listed as: STATION HILL Furzeham Court Hotel)

GV II

Detached house, standing on the hillside above All Saints Church (qv). 1832, with additions to left and at rear. Solid rendered walls. Slated roof. Rendered chimney on each end wall. 2 rooms flanking centre entrance and stairhall. Added room to left (straight joint visible inside). Long rear wing, possibly original, to right. Shorter rear wing, probably C19, to left of original range. 2 storeys. 4 windows wide, the left-hand window set in the addition. Round-arched doorway in centre of original front; recessed surround; late C20 glazed door with original reeded transom below a plain semicircular fanlight. A second round-arched doorway at left-hand end of front. Windows have late C20 small-paned wood casements. Deep flat eaves-cornice, panelled on the soffit and with paired brackets. Abutting the right-hand end of the frontage is a side-passage doorway in red and cream brick with a pointed arch; planked door. INTERIOR inspected on ground-floor only. Wooden dogleg staircase with closed strings, thin square balusters and column-newels. Both adjacent rooms have panelled shutters. Left-hand room has white marble chimneypiece, probably mid C19, with enriched brackets of coloured marble. Behind the right-hand shutter in this room is written in pencil the name John Sprague Green and the date 1858. Subsidiary features: narrow terrace to front of house with tall stone rubble retaining wall. At its foot is a garden enclosed by stone rubble walls on the other 3 sides. To the right of the garden is a flight of steps leading up to the house, with spear-head uprights to C19 iron gate with twisted shaft.

Listing NGR: SX9233456195

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
383725
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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