LOWER BLAGDON HOUSE

LOWER BLAGDON HOUSE, LOWER BLAGDON LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298229
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: LOWER BLAGDON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LOWER BLAGDON HOUSE, LOWER BLAGDON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298229
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: LOWER BLAGDON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LOWER BLAGDON HOUSE, LOWER BLAGDON LANE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: LOWER BLAGDON HOUSE, LOWER BLAGDON LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Torbay (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SX8597360828

Details

SX86SE 1947-1/2/166 10/01/75

PAIGNTON

LOWER BLAGDON LANE, Blagdon (North side) Lower Blagdon House (Formerly Listed as: LOWER BLAGDON LANE, Blagdon Walnut Cottage)

GV II

Gentry house. Early C18, probably with an earlier core. MATERIALS: Part stone rubble, part cob, cement-rendered and blocked out; slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts. Some of the service blocks are partly brick, one with a timber-framed, slate-hung first floor. PLAN: Slightly set back from the road. Principal rooms in L-plan range with subsidiary buildings round rear service yard. Main block 2 rooms wide faces S onto a garden, right end (E) stack and rear left lateral stack. Service/entrance wing at right-angles to rear with passage entrance into stair hall and N end stack to kitchen. Servants'/children's accommodation in the attic rooms with unusual arrangement of service stairs back to back with main stair. Service yard to NE with laundry block to S with fireplace back to back with E end stack of main range. Service rooms adjoining kitchen include larder and pound-house, the latter with access from the field to the N for dropping apples down. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic, with part cellar. Asymmetrical 2:1-window front with the end of the main range with a hipped roof to the left. Rusticated cement-rendered quoins; deep boxed eaves. 6-panel early C19 front door into left-hand block with overlight with ornamental glazing bars and a C20 timber open porch on posts. 12-pane C19 sash to left of door, 2 first-floor probably C20 2 over 4-pane top-hung windows. C18 hipped roof dormer glazed with a 2-light timber casement with glazing bars. The end of the main range has one 4 over 4-pane sash to the ground floor with vertical glazing bars and a plank door to the cellar. To the left, set back, a single-storey block with a hipped roof contains a fine, wide, early C18 2-panel door with moulded panels and draw bar to the service rooms. 3-bay right return (garden elevation), roof hipped at ends. Tall central 12-pane sash, flanked by probably early C19 French windows with margin panes and overlights with ornamental glazing bars matching the front door. 3 first-floor probably C18 12-pane sashes, the left-hand 2 with opening panes. 2 hipped roof dormers with 3 over 6-pane sashes. Verandah on plain timber posts. Laundry block to right has one 2-pane sash. Rear elevation of the main block has a panelled back door and sash windows. On the N side, from the field to the N, the pound house has a long catslide roof. INTERIOR: Very unaltered. Fine series of moulded 2-panel early C18 doors including the attic storey. Early C19 stick baluster stair with mahogany handrail. Chimney-pieces, mostly timber, some dating from the early C18. The attic rooms are plastered out with peep-holes from 2 of the bedrooms onto the landing. Flag floors to kitchen and larder; massive, partly blocked fireplace in the kitchen. Laundry has open fireplace with chamfered step-stopped timber lintel and C19 copper. Service yard paved with local stone. Pound house retains beam for press, press removed. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES: An unusually complete small gentry house with good quality detail and well-preserved service buildings. The present owner is a descendent of the Mudge family, recorded as occupants of Blagdon in 1567. (Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol 64: Couldrey WG: Memories and Antiquities of Paignton: 1932-: 234).

Listing NGR: SX8597360828

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Legacy System number:: 383814
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Transactions of the Devonshire Association' in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, , Vol. 64, (1932), 234

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.