FAIRLEA INCLUDING GATEPIERS AT EAST END AND GARDEN WALL

FAIRLEA INCLUDING GATEPIERS AT EAST END AND GARDEN WALL, NORTHDOWN ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292442
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:: FAIRLEA INCLUDING GATEPIERS AT EAST END AND GARDEN WALL
Statutory Address:: FAIRLEA INCLUDING GATEPIERS AT EAST END AND GARDEN WALL, NORTHDOWN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292442
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:: FAIRLEA INCLUDING GATEPIERS AT EAST END AND GARDEN WALL
Statutory Address 1:: FAIRLEA INCLUDING GATEPIERS AT EAST END AND GARDEN WALL, NORTHDOWN 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FAIRLEA INCLUDING GATEPIERS AT EAST END AND GARDEN WALL, NORTHDOWN 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 44390 26884

Details

BIDEFORD

SS42NW NORTHDOWN ROAD 842-1/1/210 Fairlea including gatepiers at E end 19/03/73 and garden wall (Formerly Listed as: NORTHDOWN ROAD Favilea (including gate piers))

II

Detached house. 1840. Solid rendered walls. Slate roof. Rendered chimneys with octagonal shafts. Iregular double-depth plan; staircase centre right with original kitchen behind it. 2 storeys with basement. Gothic and Tudor exterior with 3-window front facing east. Gabled projection to right with Gothic bargeboards, these continued to left and on to right side-wall as a deep boxed eaves cornice. Small-paned sash window with Gothic arches to the top row of panes; straight hood-moulds. Pilaster-strips at left end of front and flanking gable. Raised band above ground storey. Similar gables and windows on each side-wall, although that to left has only plain sashes. Back entrance to left has plank door in a pointed-arched opening; trellised porch with Gothic bargeboards. INTERIOR: geometrical wood stair with cutstrings and thin square balusters, the soffits of the treads shaped. 2 round-headed semi-circular niches in the compartment-walls. Entrance-passage and first-floor landing have plaster frieze of Gothic arches. Enriched oval skylight with glazing-bars. Original large kitchen fireplace with wood surrounds. High stone rubble garden walls with gate (disused) at E end, at the junction with Slade. Square rendered gate-piers with pedimented caps; inset Gothic panels, that to right retaining original rustic trellis-work (twigs with bark still on) nailed to a wooden board. (Information from owner).

Listing NGR: SS4439026884

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 375912
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.