Thorverton
THORVERTON, 7, SILVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260790
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thorverton
- Statutory Address:
- THORVERTON, 7, SILVER STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/10139/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260790
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thorverton
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORVERTON, 7, SILVER STREET
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:
- THORVERTON, 7, SILVER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS9269702067
Details
SS 90 SW
8/154
THORVERTON
SILVER STREET, Thorverton
No 7 (Thorverton)
GV
II
House. C18 with some late C19 remodelling but possibly a thorough refashioning of an
earlier building on the site. Colourwashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings,
gable end of rear wing timber framed with brick infill ; slate roof, gabled at ends
and gabled at end of wing ; end stacks with brick shafts, right end stack projecting,
large projecting lateral stack to rear wing.
Plan : Single depth main range, 3 rooms wide with a central entrance into an entrance
hall with the principal stair in a gabled turret to the rear of the entrance hall,
principal rooms to left and right. Rear right kitchen wing at right angles to the
main range heated by a lateral stack. The main range has been extended to the rear
bringing the rear elevation flush with the stair turret: this extension has provided
a service stair adjacent to the main stair and a glazed late C19 garden room under a
catslide roof to rear left.
Exterior 2 storeys. Symmetrical bay 7 front with deep eaves carried on moulded
brackets above coving. Wide central C20 porch with Doric columns and a cornice ;
panelled front door (top panels glazed) with an eared architrave. Fenestration of
12-pane sashes. The rear elevation has a gabled stair turret with a large
rectangular stair window with glazing bars. The late C19 garden room to the right of
the turret is glazed to the garden. The lateral stack on the right return of the
kitchen wing is large and may date from a C17 building phase.
Interior C18 joinery survives, including shutters and doors. Pretty principal stair
with slender turned balusters and a square newel post. Pitched stone flooring
survives below the boarded floor of parts of the kitchen wing.
Roof kitchen wing only inspected : pegged x apex collar rafter roof trusses of an C18
date ; similar roof trusses said to survive in main range.
Thorverton was formerly part of the the Pynes Estate and is referred to as Pynes
Tenement before the name changed to Thorverton.
A substantial gentleman's house in Silver Street, slightly set back from the road and
forming a good group with other detached houses.
Listing NGR: SS9269702067
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439474
- 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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