Cambria House
CAMBRIA HOUSE, 81, DAWLISH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269125
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Cambria House
- Statutory Address:
- CAMBRIA HOUSE, 81, DAWLISH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269125
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Cambria House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAMBRIA HOUSE, 81, DAWLISH ROAD
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:
- CAMBRIA HOUSE, 81, DAWLISH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Teignmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 94448 73896
Details
TEIGNMOUTH
SX9473 DAWLISH ROAD 25-1/5/120 (West side) 30/06/49 No.81 Cambria House (Formerly Listed as: DAWLISH ROAD (West side) No.81 Cambrian House)
II
House. Early C19. Painted roughcast, hipped slate roof with 10 diagonally-set flues to axial brick stack. Square plan. Picturesque style. EXTERIOR: single-storey with attics; 3-window range. Reeded cast-iron columns support a wide overhang of the roof, forming a verandah to the east and south garden fronts and part of the west side. The 2 garden fronts each have 3 gabled dormers over 2-light margin-paned casement windows and segmental-arched fanlights with radial glazing bars, those to the centres have similar windows in larger dormers, the west side has one dormer. The 6-panel door is in the west side where a 2-storey gabled projection to eaves has a 6/6-pane sash window to the entrance hall. INTERIOR: a semi-elliptical arch leads to an open-well, open-string staircase with stick balusters, turned newels and a wreathed swan's neck rail and curtail step. Rooms to the ground floor have dado rails, reeded cornices and marble fireplaces, one red and one black. Fireplaces to the attics are painted stone. HISTORICAL NOTE: the house was formerly thatched and was probably built by Commander Laurence Gwynne (1772-1845), Sheriff of London and Middlesex and a mathematician, who lived here. An interesting example of an early C19 cottage ornee, the plan formed around its central stack and enveloped by a verandah.
Listing NGR: SX9444873896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461093
- 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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