Whitchurch House
WHITCHURCH HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263130
- Date first listed:
- 17-Feb-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Whitchurch House
- Statutory Address:
- WHITCHURCH HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263130
- Date first listed:
- 17-Feb-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Whitchurch House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITCHURCH 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:
- WHITCHURCH HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tavistock
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 49260 73125
Details
The following building shall be added:-
TAVISTOCK SX47SE WHITCHURCH 78- /2/10001 Whitchurch House II
House. Early C19 remodelling and extension of an earlier C18 property, a former vicarage. Roughly coursed slatestone, with slate hanging to principal south and west elevations; rag slate roof hipped to front, with rendered and C19 brick stacks. Double-depth plan, with service ranges to east flanking courtyard. 2 storeys. 4-window south front with 6/6-pane sashes (later horned replacements to ground floor) and tripartite windows to left with 4:12:4 panes; all windows have simple bracketed wooden hoods; half-glazed door with fanlight set in panelled reveals, with Tuscan porch to front. Similar fenestration to left-hand (west) return, all with later horned sashes and two early C20 French windows. Both elevations have deep wooden cornice, that to west with dentilled decoration. To the right (east) of the front elevation is a lower 2-storey service range which has bracketed hoods over 2 first-floor sashes and paired sashes to ground floor, all 6/6-pane. Similar sashes to rear and east elevations, the ground floor fenestration to the latter altered by two mid C20 windows. The rear right (north east) corner has a short length of rubble wall attached to a 2-storey outbuilding with half-hipped roof and tall sash windows lighting first-floor room (a possible former schoolroom). Interior: many original (early C19) features including panelled doors with brass fittings, decorative and moulded plaster cornicing; chimney pieces and open-well stair with fret-cut brackets, turned balusters, handrail ramped to later (c.1860s) newel with acorn finial, set in central stairhall with coved cornice and lit by domed lantern; large service area to east of house has simpler joinery with reused C18 panelled doors and service stair with stick balusters. The property is shown as a vicarage on a 1784 map of Tavistock.
Listing NGR: SX4926073125
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433142
- 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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