Eveleighs
EVELEIGHS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261455
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Eveleighs
- Statutory Address:
- EVELEIGHS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261455
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Eveleighs
- Statutory Address 1:
- EVELEIGHS
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:
- EVELEIGHS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cruwys Morchard
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 88647 12317
Details
SS 81 SE CRUWYS MORCHARD 2/65 Eveleighs - II House, formerly keeper's cottage to Cruwys Morchard House, then dower house. Early C17 origins, remodelled and extended in the C19, probably in 2 phases. Stone rubble and cob, partly re-faced in stone in the 1980s, first floor of wing whitewashed and rendered ; slate roof, gabled at ends ; axial stack to east-facing wing. L plan. Single depth east-facing range, 2 rooms wide, rear left wing at right angles consists of 1 principal room and the stair. Main entrance facing the stair, further central entrance on east elevation. Although the exterior of the house appears to be early/mid C19 it is a multi-phase building. The left hand ground floor room of the east-facing range is C17 : this range appears to have been remodelled perhaps in the early C19 as a 2 room plan building. The house was upgraded to a dower house to Cruwys Morchard House in the later C19 when the south-facing wing was added and the principal entrance moved to the south front. 2 storeys. 2:1 window south elevation, gabled to the front at the right end with C19 front doorway to left of centre with a rectanglular fanlight. Boxed 16-pane hornless sashes to right of door ; 16-pane sashes with smaller margin panes to left of door; similar 4 pane sash above door. The east elevation is 3 bays with a C20 stone open- fronted porch with a lean-to roof and C19 2-light timber casements with margin glazing. Interior The C17 room has a chamfered cross beam with step stops and a C17 fireplace with a bread oven, stone rubble jambs and a chamfered stopped lintel. Other joinery details are C19. An evolved house with C17 origins and intact C19 fenestration. Eveleighs is documented in the C17. In 1872 it was lived in by the curate of Cruwys Morchard Church, Mr Laurie. Cruwys, Margaret C.S., A Cruwys Morchard Notebook, 1066-1874 (1939)
Listing NGR: SS8864712317
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437532
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cruwys, M C S, A Cruwys Morchard Notebook 1066-1874, (1939)
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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