Gurrington House
GURRINGTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263571
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gurrington House
- Statutory Address:
- GURRINGTON HOUSE
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/06071/23
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263571
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gurrington House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GURRINGTON 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:
- GURRINGTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodland
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 78373 69034
Details
SX 76 NE WOODLAND
3/64 Gurrington House -
- II
House. Early C19. Believed to have been built for Thomas Abraham (d. 1818) on his retirement from the East India Company. Service-wing may be early C18 or earlier, with C20 addition on north-west. Rendered solid walls. Asbestos-slated roofs, the main body of the house having 4 roofs, with swept eaves, arranged in an oblong around a leaded flat roof with skylight in centre. Chimney-stacks asymmetrically placed to meet needs of plan. Main house has 2 large ground storey rooms on south- east side, originally with entrance passage between them; north-west side has open- well staircase between 2 smaller rooms, the souther-western room serving as an entrance hall. L-shaped service wing on north-west. 2 storeys. Garden front of main house (facing north-east) is 4 windows wide. All windows have 2-pane barred timber sashes, except that lower timber sashes in ground storey are of 9-panes. South-east front is 5 windows wide, all with 6-paned timber sashes. In centre bay of ground storey a glazed door with C20 flanking pilasters and pediment. South- west (entrance front) has 2 similar windows to left in second story and 1 to left in ground storey. Doorway to left of centre is round-arched with panelled reveals, the panels flush and wish reeded borders. Door has 3 panels below, the upper part being glazed in 6 panes; patterned fanlight over. In front of doorway a very large 7-sided porch of mid-C19 date; glazed door in centre, other faces each with 4-paned timber sash windows. Garden front of service-wing is 4 irregularly sized and spaced windows wide. All windows have late C19 or early C20 wood casements, except for second ground storey window from right, which is a 6-paned timber sash. In left-hand bay a doorway with square porch having a glazed door. Wood bell-turret on roof, rebuilt C20. Interior: wood staircase with cut strings, thin square- section balusters, rounded handrail swept up over column newels. South-west ground storey room has ceiling band with a type of key-pattern; north-east room has grey marble chimney piece with reeded surround and top is of concentric mouldings (the other chimney pieces are C20 importations). Service wing has doors with raised and fielded ovolo-moulded panels. Source: H R Evans in Transactions of Devonshire Association, 1960, p 212
Listing NGR: SX7837369034
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432048
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, (1960), 212
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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