Ponsworthy House
PONSWORTHY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260039
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Ponsworthy House
- Statutory Address:
- PONSWORTHY HOUSE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05505/14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260039
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Ponsworthy House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PONSWORTHY 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:
- PONSWORTHY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Widecombe in the Moor
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 70162 74050
Details
WIDECOMBE-IN- PONSWORTHY SX 77 SW THE-MOOR 6/237 Ponsworthy House 23.8.55 - II
House. Early C19. Solid rendered walls, probably of stone. Slated roof with deeply projecting eaves. Gables have stone copings supported at the front by shaped corbels. Chimneystack at apex of each gable, that to left of granite ashlar, that to right rendered. L-shaped plan, with double-depth front range. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front. Windows have eared cement architraves; C20 wood and plastic glazing. Granite window-sills supported at each end by shaped brackets. Doorway in centre has 6-panelled door with 3-panelled reveals, the lowest tier of panels flush. Porch supported by 2 granite Doric columns of slightly eccentric design; now enclosed and the entablature replaced. Interior: only partly inspected. Left-hand front room has panelled shutters and a simple original chimneypiece that appears to be of wood. Open well staircase of wood, with column-newels and thin square balusters. Rear wing has 2 large fireplaces with plain granite lintels. In 1844 the house, then called Linchover, was owned and occupied by Henry Caunter Source: Devon Record Office, Widecombe tithe map and apportionment.
Listing NGR: SX7016274050
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441809
- 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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