Gunstone House
GUNSTONE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306158
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gunstone House
- Statutory Address:
- GUNSTONE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306158
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gunstone House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUNSTONE HOUSE
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:
- GUNSTONE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton Hamlets
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 80708 98923
Details
SX 39 NW CREDITON HAMLETS
7/74 Gunstone House
II
House. Early-mid C19. Stucco on rubble; rubble stacks with brick chimney shafts; slate roof. Gable-ended, 2 room, double depth building with rear pitch carried down over single storey rear rooms. Central stairhall plan. Gable-end stacks, axial stack left of centre and lateral kitchen stack to rear. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 5-window front of stucco incised as ashlar. 20-pane sashes to ground floor, 16-pane sashes to first. Central 6-panel door with Tuscan doorcase. Mid C19 glass-roofed verandah articulated by hip-roofed conservatories projecting slightly at each end and a similar central projection over the door. Both conservatories are timber framed with panelling below 3-window fronts, a large central 4-pane, round-headed window flanked by narrow round-headed windows. The flanking sections are similar to the 6 verandah supports across the front. Each bay has cast-iron scrollwork spandrel brackets springing from posts listed as pairs forming round-headed open arches with pierced panels above and closed dados below. Timber gutter bracketting. Massive kitchen stack to rear. Kitchen has 16-pane sash whilst other rear windows are casements. Left side service door has rusticated stucco surround. Interior preserves much original joinery and plasterwork. Name represents survival of distinct medieval estate of Gunstan recorded in 1340. According to records of Court of Wards of 1631 manor of Gunstone then held by Reynells family. Sources Devon S.M.R.
Listing NGR: SX8070898923
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95175
- 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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