Bitton House
BITTON HOUSE, BITTON PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1269155
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Bitton House
- Statutory Address:
- BITTON HOUSE, BITTON PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1269155
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Bitton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BITTON HOUSE, BITTON PARK 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:
- BITTON HOUSE, BITTON PARK 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 93501 73055
Details
TEIGNMOUTH
SX9373 BITTON PARK ROAD 25-1/4/101 (South side) 30/06/49 Bitton House
GV II*
Large house in its own grounds, now district council premises. Late C18, remodelled c1835 by George Basevi for Matthew Praed, poet; late C19 interior alterations. Painted stucco, slate roof with late C19 moulded stucco stacks. PLAN: U-plan with long south garden front. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. A cornice, parapet with moulded coping and a platband surround the building, banded rustication to the rear and returns. Symmetrical 6-window north entrance front has banded pilasters and moulded semicircular arches over flat-arched 6/6-pane sash windows to the 1st floor; the 2-window central block flanked by pilasters has a projecting semi-octagonal single-storey porch (probably C19) with cornice, moulded coping to a parapet, moulded pilasters to the angles, moulded panels below the windows (blind to the sides) and a segmental-arched doorcase with overlight to double doors; the projecting side wings have stacks behind pediments and moulded roundels to the apexes; the 4/4-pane tripartite sash windows to the ground-floor are set in segmental-arched recesses. The west front has 2 full-height canted bays. The 1st floor has shouldered architraves, and consoles rising from the platband to the sills of 6/6-pane sash windows. French windows to the ground floor are under a deep swept tented verandah supported by cast-iron columns. The 11-window range south garden front was embellished mid C19. The 1st floor has 6/6-pane sash windows in similar architraves to the west front. Those to the left and centre are articulated by fluted pilasters rising from consoles below the platband and extending through the cornice. Flanking the central window are shallow curved bays, above them and to theleft the parapet is panelled with guttae motifs. 4 raised panels above the parapet; 2 to the centre of the bays, those to the centre and left-hand range with antefixae and anthemion motifs to the centre. 3 windows to each bay are 6/9-pane sashes below ornamental panels and keystones to segmental-arched moulded architraves. INTERIOR: altered, but surviving features include 6-panel doors and joinery, fireplaces, enriched cornicing to ground-floor rooms, elegant curved staircase with stick balusters and a stained glass panel to inner door with a portrait of Admiral Pellew (who owned the property from (1812-33).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 798).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461079
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 798
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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