Hele House

HELE HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1243548
Date first listed:
26-Aug-1965
List Entry Name:
Hele House
Statutory Address:
HELE HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1243548
Date first listed:
26-Aug-1965
List Entry Name:
Hele House
Statutory Address 1:
HELE HOUSE

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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HELE HOUSE

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

County:
Devon
District:
Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Sandford
National Grid Reference:
SS8120002766

Details

SS 80 SW
3/277
26.8.65

SANDFORD
WEST SANDFORD
Hele House

GV
II

House. Early-mid C19. Plastered rubble; rubble stacks with C19 brick chimney
shafts; slate roof. 2-room double-depth house facing south-east. Central
staircase plan with stacks projecting from end walls. Rear service wing behind
right (north-east) end. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front. Rusticated
stucco quoins each end. Central 4-panel door, overlight with glazing bars,
panelled reveals and Doric porch with fluted columns and moulded entlablature.
Flanking 16-pane sashes with 12-pane sashes above and central 9-pane sash. Roof
half-hipped each end. Rear block includes C19 small casement with leaded glass on
inner face. Rear rebuilt in C20.
Well-preserved interior includes geometric open string stair with facetted and
turned balusters, mahogany scrolled handrail, wreathed with curtail step.
Segmental stair arch with stucco eagle-supporters.

Listing NGR: SS8120002766

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
447498
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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