Blachford Including Service Wing and Stables to East
BLACHFORD INCLUDING SERVICE WING AND STABLES TO EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1309689
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Blachford Including Service Wing and Stables to East
- Statutory Address:
- BLACHFORD INCLUDING SERVICE WING AND STABLES TO EAST
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- 2004-12-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/12428/19
- Rights:
- © Mr David T Simkins. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1309689
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Blachford Including Service Wing and Stables to East
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACHFORD INCLUDING SERVICE WING AND STABLES TO EAST
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:
- BLACHFORD INCLUDING SERVICE WING AND STABLES TO EAST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cornwood
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 61246 59957
Details
SX 65 NW CORNWOOD BLACHFORD PARK 11/25 Blachford including 29-3-60 service wing and stables to east (formerly listed as II* Blackford)
Large house in landscaped park. Circa C16 origin although largely rebuilt in C18 and with early C19 alterations and additions. Granite rubble with dressed granite quoins. Slate hipped roof behind rendered parapet with moulded cornice. Half H-shaped on plan with wings at rear. Two storeys and attic. Front: 2:5:2 bays projecting end 2 bays are early C19 additions. First floor right hand is blind. Sash windows mostly with glazing bars in moulded architraves with cornices. Central doorway with stone pilasters, entablature and fielded panel door. Early C19 Tuscan porch. Gabled and slate hung between wings at rear. Stables and service wing to east, set back. L-shaped plan. Granite ashlar with steeply pitched hipped slate roof. Two storeys. Five by five bays of sash windows. Wooden ballcote over roof. Reset in east end wall a large moulded granite 4-centred arch doorway with carved spandrels and hoodmould. Inside the stables there are C18 arcaded stalls. Interior: C18 staircase in large open well with balusters and carved tread ends. Drawing room has modillion cornice and frieze. Although the remainder of the house has not been inspected it appears that much of the C18 joinery is intact. Blachford is a Domesday manor and became the seat of the Rogers family. According to W G Hoskins "A New Survey of England, Devon" page 376, the house was rebult in C17.
Listing NGR: SX6124659957
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99130
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hoskins, W G, A New Survey of England in Devon, (1972), 376
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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