Sowden House
SOWDEN HOUSE, SOWDEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317305
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Sowden House
- Statutory Address:
- SOWDEN HOUSE, SOWDEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317305
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Sowden House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOWDEN HOUSE, SOWDEN LANE
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:
- SOWDEN HOUSE, SOWDEN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lympstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 99528 83794
Details
SX 98 SE LYMPSTONE SOWDEN LANE, Lympstone
3/43 Sowden House 18.11.77 - II
Detached house. Circa 1700, remodelled and extensively refenestrated probably circa 1819 when Captain Thomas Williams retired here from the Royal Navy. Roughcast cob, stone footings; hipped bitumen-coated slate roof. A 2-room, through-passage house, with rear kitchen wing. Both main rooms heated by external rear lateral stacks, that to the left-hand room engulfed by the possibly slightly later kitchen wing. This latter stack stands adjacent to the site of the former newel stair; the present C19 stairs are situated in the central through passage. Rear wing with external end stack. C19 rear extensions. 2 storeys. Front: slightly asymmetrical 3-window range; main rooms lit by tripartite 4:12:4 pane hornless sashes; round-headed 12-pane hornless sash window above porch light stair landing; porch with moulded cornice on square-section wooden columns; pilasters; door surround with small cyma-recta moulding; canted reveals; half- glazed door. 3 late-C19 or early C20 2-light gabled full dormers. Left-hand side elevation : 12-pane hornless sash window to first floor; two 3-light casement windows to ground floor. Lighting a small room built behind the main range rear stack is a 2-light casement window of circa 1700, with 24 leaded panes per light, 2 decorated catches and 1 stanchion. No windows to right hand end of main range. Rear: lunette to stair hall; rear wing with casement windows and one 4:12:4 pane tripartite hornless sash window to first floor. Interior: main rooms with boxed ceiling beams; chamfered lintel to left-hand room fireplace; this stack also served a fireplace facing the rear wing, with a side oven, all now blocked, although a bolection moulded surround survives; this room entered by 2 early fielded panel doors. 1 rough ceiling cross beam to wing. C19 dog-leg staircase with ramped rail and stick balusters. Other early-C19 joinery and chimneypieces. Roof: 4 clean trusses come well down into wall; crossed, halved and pegged at apex; halved and pegged collars; trenched purlins.
Listing NGR: SX9952883794
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88543
- 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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