Devon Lodge and Forecourt Plinth and Piers
DEVON LODGE AND FORECOURT PLINTH AND PIERS, DEVON SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257101
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Devon Lodge and Forecourt Plinth and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- DEVON LODGE AND FORECOURT PLINTH AND PIERS, DEVON SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257101
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Devon Lodge and Forecourt Plinth and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEVON LODGE AND FORECOURT PLINTH AND PIERS, DEVON SQUARE
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:
- DEVON LODGE AND FORECOURT PLINTH AND PIERS, DEVON SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton Abbot
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 86334 71244
Details
NEWTON ABBOT
SX8671 DEVON SQUARE 1012-1/9/44 (West side) 22/03/83 Devon Lodge and forecourt plinth and piers
GV II
Purpose-built Freemason's Lodge. Date 1867. MATERIALS: squared Devon limestone rubble with cream freestone dressings, crested slate roofs. STYLE: Gothic Revival (Middle Pointed). PLAN: rectangular plan in 2 blocks. EXTERIOR: single storey; 2-window range to the front. Main block has a forward-facing gable. The front and right return are articulated by off-set buttresses rising from the plinth up to a moulded off-set sill string course. A wrought-iron Mason's star on a stone finial is over an elongated quatrefoil window to the apex; paired 2-light plate-tracery leaded windows with quatrefoils between the lights, hoodmoulds and weathered sills; the sill string course rises at the centre over 2 stone plaques inscribed "Devon Lodge" and "1867 A.D." flanking a central buttress; entrance in a coped wall to the left has a shouldered arch over a planked door with an integral overlight. Right return of the main block has exposed rafter ends and 4 leaded trefoil windows. The central buttress rises to the eaves. Transverse rear block, gabled with wide eaves, has one large 4-light plate-glass mullioned and transomed window with chamfered arrises under a cream brick shallow pointed arch. Set into the plinth of the rear block are 3 small shallow pointed-arched windows with C20 glazing. Between the two blocks is a lower connecting range with a tall planked door with a pointed overlight set almost one metre up the wall. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a coped revetment wall to the forecourt has 2 gate piers to the left and one pier to the right-hand corner of squared Devon limestone with stepped pyramidal caps.
Listing NGR: SX8633471244
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464226
- 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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