Warkleigh House
WARKLEIGH HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1258734
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Warkleigh House
- Statutory Address:
- WARKLEIGH HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1258734
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Warkleigh House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WARKLEIGH 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.
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:
- WARKLEIGH HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Satterleigh and Warkleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 65547 22926
Details
SS 62 SE SATTERLEIGH AND WARKLEIGH 4/190 Warkleigh House - GV II
Former rectory, now private dwelling. 1844 by Abbott of Barnstaple. Rendered stone rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roof with shaped bargeboards. Apex cross to entrance porch. Rendered stacks with triple shafts with moulded caps. Plan. Consists of 3 parallel ranges, the rear range recessed slightly to left (garden) side and extending well to the right as service wing. The front ranges are 2 rooms wide with a wide entrance passage which runs axially from the symmetrical 3- bay entrance front including 2-storey entrance porch, through the 3 ranges to the single storey polygonal rear porch. 3 principal rooms to left of the passage, and 2 rooms flanking principal staircase to right side, with service rooms housed in the projecting right-hand section of the rear range. Tudor Gothic style. 2 storeys with attic storey. Symmetrical 3-bay entrance front, asymmetrical garden front. All fenestration intact with transomed windows with diamond latticed glazing pattern and hoodmoulds, French windows to ground floor. Entrance front has a 2- light window above French window to each side of 2-storey entrance porch with 18<4 date plaque above 4-centred arched doorway with heavily moulded surround of double- engaged colonettes. Quatrefoil and mouchette traceried spandrels. Cartouche over inner doorway with inscription Gloria in Excelsis Deo flanking Star of David. Porch has single light window to each floor on each side. 3-gabled garden front, the 2 right-hand gables forming symmetrical composition of two 2-light windows above French windows with single light attic windows in the gable. Recessed gabled bay at left and has a 3-light window'over French windows. Conservatory extends to left with brick plinth, glazed above, canted bay at the front with Adam style fanlights to the doorway. Interior. Brief inspection suggested C19 joinery entirely intact. The entrance hall and porch ceilings are plain vaulted. Warkleigh House was built by William Thorold as a rectory in 1844, close to the old Parsonage (q.v.). His family retained the house on his death in 1888. A new rectory (the present Old Rectory) was subsequently established nearby, with the result that the small settlement of Warkleigh has 3 former parsonages within a short distance of each other.
Listing NGR: SS6554722926
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 445591
- 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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