Glebe House
GLEBE HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293265
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe House
- Statutory Address:
- GLEBE HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293265
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Oct-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLEBE HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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:
- GLEBE HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 83622 00382
Details
CREDITON
SS834000 CHURCH STREET 672-1/6/15 (East side) 11/10/72 Glebe House (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET The Vicarage)
GV II
House, formerly the vicarage. Circa 1800, possibly a remodelling of an C18 house; some alterations of the 1950s, 1980s repair. Roughcast, probably local volcanic stone rubble; slate roof behind parapet; stacks with brick shafts. Plan: Double-depth plan with central entry and service courtyard to rear. Kitchen to rear left with wash-house and storage buildings in a single storey wing at right angles to the rear. Rear right contains a service stair, large pantry and a servants' hall, which was connnected to the dining room by a passage under the main stair, doors now blocked. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a cornice with moulded brackets below the parapet. Cemented left and right plain pilasters and first floor platband. Tuscan doorcase with a broken pediment and panelled reveals. 6-panel door, the lower panels flush, below a fanlight with a central roundel and teardrop glazing bars. Early C19 windows, 8/12-pane sashes to the ground floor; 16-pane sashes first floor left and right, 12-pane sash in the centre. The 4-bay right return has false windows in the left hand bay, the other bays have sashes matching those on the front. The left return has a 1950s French window to ground floor centre, flanked by false windows; similar false windows to the first floor above them and an early C19 16-pane sash in the centre. The rear elevation has a central recessed C19 rear door, the upper panels glazed; one 16-pane sash lighting the old kitchen, the other windows are timber casements. The service courtyard has attractive pitched stone paving. Interior: Rich in C19 fittings: decorated cornice in parlour to left;white marble chimney-piece to dining room on right.Joinery includes doors, skirtings and fitted bookshelves in the study/library. The library to rear of parlour has an unusual local volcanic trap chimney-piece which includes 2 massive carved foliage bosses below the shelf - these may have originated from the parish church. Top-lit stair-hall to rear of dining room: stick baluster stair with mahogany handrail and mahogany newels to the landing, top-lit by glazing over a central drum. Unusually, some of the service rooms fittings also survive, kitchen cupboards and also a fitted buffet in the passage which serviced the dining room. A good quality, large-scale former vicarage. Surrounding cob walls (q.v.) are separately listed.
Listing NGR: SS8362200382
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386964
- 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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