Otter House
OTTER HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281596
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Otter House
- Statutory Address:
- OTTER HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281596
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Otter House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OTTER 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:
- OTTER HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton Poppleford and Harpford
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 09103 90391
Details
SY 09 SE NEWTON POPPLEFORD HARPFORD AND HARPFORD 4/65 Otter House - 6.4.81 GV II House. Early C19. Plastered stone rubble or brick; probably brick stacks topped with C19 brick; slate roof. The house faces west. It has a double-depth plan with 3 rooms front and back. The entrance hall and stair are right (south) of centre. Massive axial stack between the centre and left rooms. 2 storeys with attics. Regular but not symmetrical 3-window front is mostly original. All 3 ground floor windows and the middle first floor window are 3-light casements with glazing bars which include a top tier of pointed arches. The outer first floor windows are shorter and plainer with glazing bars. The doorway is set right of centre and contains a part-glazed panelled door, a narrow overlight, panelled reveals and a doorcase with Tuscan pilasters and moulded entablature including a dentil cornice. The plaster front is lightly scored as ashlar. Above is the deep projecting eaves carried on widely-spaced pairs of shaped brackets. The roof is unusually tall and gable-ended to right and half-hipped to left. It contains a C20 skylight left of centre. The other windows are C19 and C20 casements most with glazing bars and one, in the left end wall, with panes of leaded glass. Interior contains a good deal of original detail.
Listing NGR: SY0910390391
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352387
- 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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