Brook Lodge Including Gates to North
BROOK LODGE INCLUDING GATES TO NORTH, SILVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240902
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Lodge Including Gates to North
- Statutory Address:
- BROOK LODGE INCLUDING GATES TO NORTH, SILVER STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240902
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Lodge Including Gates to North
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOK LODGE INCLUDING GATES TO NORTH, SILVER 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:
- BROOK LODGE INCLUDING GATES TO NORTH, SILVER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS9262902087
Details
SS 90 SW
8/150
THORVERTON
SILVER STREET, Thorverton
Brook Lodge including gates to north
GV
II
House. A thorough circa early C19 remodelling and extension of a C17 house ; C20
extension at rear. Colourwashed rendered stone with slate roof, hipped at ends ;
front lateral stack to Silver Street elevation with brick shaft projecting through
roof ; slightly projecting early C19 lateral stack to garden (south) elevation ;
massive probably C17 projecting rear stack with truncated shaft.
Plan: Pre C19 plan probably on L arrangement ; present early C19 plan 3 rooms wide,
double depth with an entrance from Silver Street into a heated entrance hall
containing the stair, axial passage and service room to the rear of the entrance
hall, 2 principal C19 rooms to the left, facing the garden; kitchen to rear.
2 storeys. The Silver Street elevation has deep eaves carried on moulded brackets
and 3 symmetrical bays to the left plus 1 window to the right. Panelled front door
with pilasters frieze and cornice, flanked by 12-pane sashes, 3 similar first floor
sashes, the left one false. Similar first floor sash to right above a 4-pane window.
To the right of the range there is an entrance into a courtyard with a good pair of
C19 iron carriage gates. A modern garden wall with an old plinth to the south of the
house has a good early C19 iron gate.
Interior C18 joinery survives, including the stair ; C19 chimneypieces and cornices.
1 C17 closed truss survives in the roofspace the other roof timbers are C19
replacements.
The house is documented in 1758 and was probably the home of the Reverend John
Reynell, Minister of the local Dissenters.
Listing NGR: SS9262902087
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439470
- 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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