The Old Vicarage
The Old Vicarage, Ropers Lane, Otterton, EX9 7JF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280859
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- The Old Vicarage, Ropers Lane, Otterton, EX9 7JF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280859
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Old Vicarage, Ropers Lane, Otterton, EX9 7JF
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:
- The Old Vicarage, Ropers Lane, Otterton, EX9 7JF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Otterton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 08210 85137
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/06/2019
SY 0885
7/201
OTTERTON
ROPERS LANE
The Old Vicarage
(Formerly listed as Coleshayes)
II
House, former vicarage. Circa 1840. Plastered brick or stone rubble walls; brick stacks with plastered brick chimney shafts; slate roof. T-plan house.
The front block faces south west and contains the principal rooms, one each side of the central entrance hall and staircase. Both these rooms have rear lateral stacks. Two room plan rear block projecting at right angles from rear centre. End stack and integral outshoot behind. Kitchen and service room in angle of front and rear blocks behind the front left (north east) room. Two storeys with attics to front block.
Symmetrical three-window front around the central doorway. Six-panel door and fanlight with radial glazing bars, panelled reveals and flat-roofed stucco porch with round-headed outer arch flanked by square columns containing panels of rustication and a moulded entablature. Doorway is flanked by canted bay windows containing front twelve-pane sashes and narrow side sashes. First floor has central twelve-pane sash flanked by large tripartite sashes containing twelve-pane sashes. These windows have moulded architraves and hoodmoulds supported on scroll consoles. There is a plat band at first floor level and stucco quoins on the end corners. Deep eaves carried on shaped brackets. Low pitch roof is hipped each end. The right end contains French windows under an elliptical head containing radial glazing bars. Hipped dormers containing casements with glazing bars each end of front block. The right (south west) side of rear block is similar to the front with a two-window front of sixteen-pane sashes. The rear outshot this side contains a six-panel door and its roof is hidden by a parapet. The kitchen block has a roof parallel to the rear block and has ground floor casements and a first floor sixteen-pane sash. Interior includes a good deal of original detail. The joinery includes an open string stair with stick balusters.
Listing NGR: SY0821085137
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86402
- 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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