Cadhay House
CADHAY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1289400
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Cadhay House
- Statutory Address:
- CADHAY HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1289400
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Cadhay House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CADHAY 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:
- CADHAY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ottery St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 08937 96238
Details
CADHAY 1. ------ l481 Cadhay House SY 09 NE 3/93 28.4.52. I
2. Cl6 on site of earlier mansion. A very fine stone mansion. 2 storey with attics. Slate roof. North front has 2 stepped gables, each with external chimney with offsets. 2 similar chimneys on inner sides flanking 2-storey slightly projecting porch with stepped gable. Pedimented doorhood. Door opening has rusticated surround. Many alterations were made by an owner, Peere Williams who bought the house in 1736. To him are attributed the many Georgian features. East front has 2 flanking 3-storey bays with gables, finials and stone mullion windows. In centre is a 5-sided bay containing the stairs. Garden front has 2 gables with external chimneys, and in centre a 2-storey porch with 3-centred arches each side of the door. In middle of building is an enclosed court, the "Court of the Sovereigns ." Over the doors in each Side is a carved figure, Henry VIII and his 3 children, each standing in a very fine ribbed canopy with pilasters. Inside, the hall has been roofed over. The ceiling has never been removed as it is a very fine one, coved with plaster decorated centre. There is a good carved stone fireplace. The beams of the hall can be seen in the room above. The hammer beams have gone but the semi-circular principals are moulded. The Elizabethan gallery remains on the 1st floor at the south side of the house. An article with illustrations of Cadhay House is in Country Life, 18.1.1913.
Listing NGR: SY0893796238
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397194
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 18 January, (1913)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,
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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