The Old House
THE OLD HOUSE, 13, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292127
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 13, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292127
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 13, STATION 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:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 13, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckfastleigh
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7413466142
Details
BUCKFASTLEIGH
SX7466 STATION ROAD
1011-1/7/130 (North side)
06/01/83 No.13
The Old House
(Formerly Listed as:
STATION ROAD
No.13)
GV II
House. c1820s with 1870s alterations and rear kitchen
addition. Mass wall construction, stuccoed and blocked out;
slate roof half-hipped at left end, gabled at right end; end
stacks, cast-iron gutters.
Plan: single-depth main range, 2 rooms wide with a central
entrance into a passage with a stair. Rear kitchen wing,
heated from a right lateral stack and associated with a rear
court.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front with
rusticated quoins. Deep eaves on paired moulded brackets,
fluted eaves frieze with palmettes. Round-headed doorway to
left of centre with pilastered doorcase with moulded pilasters
with capitals, an open pediment, fluted frieze and panelled
reveals, upper panels fielded. 2-leaf panelled door, upper
panels fielded; plain fanlight. Secondary doorway to former
registry office (installed in late C19) at right hand of front
with c1870s 2-leaf half-glazed door with flush panels.
Pilastered doorcase, the pilasters reeded to either side of a
deep overlight with cornice over. 2 ground-floor 16-pane C19
sashes; 4 similar first-floor windows. Left return (facing
courtyard) has renewed small-pane timber sash windows, rear
wing also has small-pane timber sashes.
INTERIOR: 2-leaf half-glazed c1870s inner door with glazed
side lights, deep overlight and 1870s floor tiling. C19
features include 1870s mahogany staircase with bobbin-turned
balusters. C19 joinery includes panelled doors. Large
fireplace in kitchen with iron lintel.
Subsidiary features: tall grey limestone rubble walls to
garden.
Historical note: in 1879 the house, known as Bridge Cottage,
was lived in by John Bovey, registrar of births and deaths,
ale and stout agent, vaccination officer and sanitary
inspector and insurance agent. Presumably the later C19
alterations were carried out for him.
(White's Directory: Devon: London: 1879-).
Listing NGR: SX7413466142
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392313
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whites Directory in History Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire, (1879)
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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