14, CATHEDRAL CLOSE
14, CATHEDRAL CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246838
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 14, CATHEDRAL CLOSE
- Statutory Address:
- 14, CATHEDRAL CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246838
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 14, CATHEDRAL CLOSE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 14, CATHEDRAL CLOSE
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:
- 14, CATHEDRAL CLOSE
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 92250 92590
Details
SX 9292 SW CATHEDRAL CLOSE 871/3/10037 (North side) 19-FEB-01 14
II
Large house, now used as offices. c.1840s. Snecked grey limestone with ashlar quoins, stucco dressings and concrete coping to the gables. Slate roofs. Cast iron rainwater goods. Gothic Revival detail applied to roughly symmetrical front elevation.
Plan: approximately rectangular plan with left and right wings projecting to the front. Rooms heated by end stacks to left and also at front right.
Exterior: 2 storeys plus attic and basements. Front elevation is not as impressive as garden elevation (right return). Asymmetrical, 2-window front with projecting lateral chimney stack to right (shaft dismantled). Stucco platband at first floor. Central projecting porch with parapet. Hoodmould over 4-centred arched doorway with ovolo/cavetto moulding. Planted panels to front door. Small single light window in right return of porch. Ground floor left window and those at first floor are 2-light mullioned windows containing pairs of small-pane hornless sashes. Half dormers with 2-light casement to left and 2-light mullioned window with hornless sash to right.
Garden elevation, right return, is symmetrical 1:3:1 bays. The end bays are gabled to the front with coped gables and kneelers; middle bay is lower in height and recessed. It has a crenellated parapet which partly obscures the roof of this range. Stucco platband at first floor cill level. Ground floor windows are 3-light small pane casements in end bays, the middle bays have three 2-light windows with glazing bars. First floor and windows in gables of end bays are all mullioned with small-pane hornless sashes. Basement windows are 16-pane hornless sashes.
Left return: 3 bays with coped gables to end bays and stringcourse. End bays each have a projecting lateral stack . Middle bay is lower in height and recessed with gutter on brackets. Single storey plus basement service block projects from middle bay. Scattered fenestration with small-pane hornless sashes.
INTERIOR: Only partially inspected. Inner door behind main entrance is 2-leaf. Each leaf has 2 panels, the top ones glazed; 4-centred arched overlight . Some rearrangement of original plan. Front staircase retains stick balusters with wreathed handrail. Most original internal doors remain. Most wooden shutters remain to ground floor windows.
This building contributes to the environment of the cathedral, standing between it and the post-blitz rebuilding to the north east.
Listing NGR: SX9225092590
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487028
- 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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