The Old Vicarage
THE OLD VICARAGE, VICTORIA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224580
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, VICTORIA ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09198/20
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224580
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, VICTORIA 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:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, VICTORIA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Exeter (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 96805 88150
Details
VICTORIA ROAD SX 9680 8815 TOP SHAM 871/8/10005 The Old Vicarage II
Villa. Probably 1860's. Stuccoed with a gabled slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts. Italianate. Plan: Approximately rectangular double depth plan, the entrance elevation facing south west. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay south west front with a deep eaves cornice carried on moulded brackets. The outer bays are under pedimented gables, slightly broken forward with quoins with chamfered rustication. Shallow projecting porch with a round-headed rusticated doorway flanked by wide pilasters decorated with a sunk moulding. Above the pilasters carved corbels support paired brackets below the porch cornice. Probably original 6-panel front door below a plain fanlight. Canted bay windows to left and right of the porch with elaborately scrolled and carved brackets below the cornices; segmental-arched windows glazed with plate glass 2-pane sashes. Moulded stringcourse at first floor sill level. Above the porch a 2- pane sash with an eared shouldered architrave. To left and right paired round-headed sashes with moulded hoodmoulds with keystone and bunches of fruit carved below the dripstone terminals. The 3-bay left return (north west elevation) continues in the same style with rusticated quoins, an eaves cornice with eaves brackets and a shallow gabled projection to left of centre, the gabled pedimented. The left hand ground floor window has a moulded architrave and moulded sill brackets and is glazed with a 4-pane sash. The ground floor window in the gabled projection has a moulded architrave; segmental head with a keystone and moulded sill brackets. It is glazed with a C19 4-pane sash with margin panes. To the right, a canted bay window matching those on the south west front. First floor window right has a moulded architrave and sill brackets; the first floor window in the projection is round-headed with a moulded hoodmould, keystones and bunches of fruit carved under the dripstone terminals. The window is glazed with a 4-pane sash. First floor window right has a moulded shouldered architrave with a keystone and is glazed with a 4-pane sash. Interior: Interior and rear elevation not inspected. Interior known to retain moulded cornices, ceiling roses, shutters, C19 style marble chimney-pieces and a stair with turned balusters. The building was called Parkfield House in 1878 and was lived in by Mr Thomas Charles Tothill (White's Devonshire). It was in use as the Vicarage by 1935
Listing NGR: SX9680588150
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420692
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whites Directory in History Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire, (1879)
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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