MORETON (NOW PART OF GRENVILLE COLLEGE)

MORETON (NOW PART OF GRENVILLE COLLEGE), ABBOTSHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282978
Date first listed:: 08-Nov-1949
List Entry Name:: MORETON (NOW PART OF GRENVILLE COLLEGE)
Statutory Address:: MORETON (NOW PART OF GRENVILLE COLLEGE), ABBOTSHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282978
Date first listed:: 08-Nov-1949
List Entry Name:: MORETON (NOW PART OF GRENVILLE COLLEGE)
Statutory Address 1:: MORETON (NOW PART OF GRENVILLE COLLEGE), ABBOTSHAM ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MORETON (NOW PART OF GRENVILLE COLLEGE), ABBOTSHAM ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Bideford
National Grid Reference:: SS 43612 26308

Details

BIDEFORD

SS42NW ABBOTSHAM ROAD 842-1/1/2 Moreton (now part of Grenville 08/11/49 College)

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Formerly known as: Daddon ABBOTSHAM ROAD. Large house, now a school (Grenville Colege). c1821. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slate roof. Rendered chimneys at front; yellow-brick ones at rear. U-shaped plan: front range has entrance-hall with main staircase to rear, one room at either side and rear range parallel to front; infilled courtyard joins up with service-building to rear right, this having its own centre courtyard with ranges on all 4 sides. House 3-storeyed; service building 1- and 2-storeyed. Main front of house of 8-window range with 8-window return to left. Centre doorway with 4-columned Doric porch, now glazed: 4-panelled door, the top 2 panels now glazed; at either side a sash-window with glazing-bars (6 over 9 panes). Flanking the porch are 2 bow windows with pilasters supporting entablature; each has 3 sash-windows matching those in the porch, except that the lower sashes to left now have no glazing-bars. Upper-storey windows plain with barred sashes: 6 over 6 panes to second storey, 3 over 6 panes to third storey. Giant pilasters flank the whole front; above them an entablature with parapet. Return front to left is similar in style, but without bow windows; the right-hand ground-storey window has no glazing-bars, nor have the lower sashes in the fourth and sixth windows from the left. Raised band between ground and second storeys. Rear range has barred sashes as in the 2 main fronts. Service building has sashes with margin-panes. INTERIOR: includes many C19 panelled doors and shutters; also enriched ceilings and cornices. Main stair rebuilt soon after 1913 and 3 first-floor rooms continued to from a ballroom. Entrance-hall has C20 Georgian-style panelling and C19 Tudor-style black marble chimneypiece with Gothic fireback. Jacobean-style oak staircase with turned balusters and carved newels; Georgian-style panelled dado; early C19 enriched oval cupola (restored 1989). Corridor along rear wing has panelled pilasters and groined-vaulted ceiling. Ground-floor front left room and the 2 wing rooms behind it all have enriched ceilings and cornices. Ballroom has apsidal ends; panelling and ceiling in Adam style; early C19 white marble chimneypiece with caryatids and carved frieze. This was originally Daddon, the C18 seat of George Buck, esq, who is believed to have started rebuilding in about 1760, although the irregular plan suggests that he retained some of the earlier fabric. Lewis William Buck (d 1858) is said to have completed the work and changed the name to Moreton in 1821; he was MP for Exeter 1826-32 and for North Devon 1834-58; entertained Disraeli at the house. Sir Hugh Stueley, bt, who moved here in 1913 also made substantial alterations. (Stueley Sir Dennis, bt: History of Moreton House (newspaper/mag cutting) source unknown).

Listing NGR: SS4361226308

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Legacy System number:: 375708
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Stueley, D, The History of Moreton House

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.