The Old Vicarage
THE OLD VICARAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240984
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VICARAGE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/10139/24
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240984
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD VICARAGE
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
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:
- SS 92374 01908
Details
SS 90 SW THORVERTON THORVERTON 8/159 The Old Vicarage 25.6.74 II Vicarage, divided into flats. 1840, by John Hayward of Exeter at a cost of £1,900. Plastered and blocked out with bitumen-painted hipped slate roofs ; 5 stacks with rendered or brick shafts. Plan: Overall L plan with an approximately square on plan block facing north east and a rear right wing. The interior has been gutted for conversion to flats and the original internal arrangements can no longer be established from the present building. 2 storeys. 3-bay front (north east) elevation with plinth, deep eaves, 12-pane sashes (linger to the ground floor) and a shallow central porch with corner pilasters and a large cornice. The wing, with no plinth, also has 12-pane sashes. Some new doors date from the 1970s conversion. Timber bellcote on roof, bell-shaped and supported on 4 posts. Interior : some fragments of plaster cornices and archways survive inside. John Hayward was the leading ecclesiastical architect in the County in the 1840s and 50s. His parson houses include both Gothic and Classical designs. Architect's drawings of the house survive in the DRO.
Listing NGR: SS9237401908
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439561
- 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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