Colston House
COLSTON HOUSE, COLSTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292831
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Colston House
- Statutory Address:
- COLSTON HOUSE, COLSTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292831
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Colston House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLSTON HOUSE, COLSTON 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:
- COLSTON HOUSE, COLSTON 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 Grid Reference:
- SX 75108 64589
Details
BUCKFASTLEIGH
SX76SE COLSTON ROAD 1011-1/4/12 (South East side) 06/01/83 Colston House
GV II
House. c1830s. Local stone rubble, stuccoed and blocked out with rusticated quoins. Slate roof, hipped at ends with slurried slate roof laid in diminishing courses. Stacks with rendered shafts with cable moulding and old chimney pots. Plan: backing directly onto the road. Double-depth plan, 2 rooms wide with a central passage containing the stair, rear left service room. A probably later block adjoins at the left end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front plus one-window block to the left, slightly broken forward. Central open porch with fluted columns supporting flat roof. Half-glazed front door with reeded doorcase. 3 first-floor round-headed c1860s sash windows with geometric glazing bars and margin panes. Similar left and right ground-floor windows with margin panes. The left hand block also has rusticated quoins and one first- and one ground-floor tripartite sash window. Rear elevation, facing the road has a tall round-headed stair window with diamond panes and 2- and 3-light casements with small panes; centre ground-floor window blocked. INTERIOR: preserves C19 joinery including panelled doors in reeded doorcases. Stick baluster stair with ramped handrail. Main room chimney-pieces appear to be replaced. Rear left kitchen has good granite-paved floor and service room off has Ashburton limestone floor. Historical note: said to have been the dower house to Biggadon, largely demolished. Richmal Crompton, the author of the Just William books, lived here at one time.
Listing NGR: SX7510864589
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392245
- 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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