The Retreat
THE RETREAT, OLD EXETER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317605
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Retreat
- Statutory Address:
- THE RETREAT, OLD EXETER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317605
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Retreat
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RETREAT, OLD EXETER 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:
- THE RETREAT, OLD EXETER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chudleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 86875 79749
Details
CHUDLEIGH OLD EXETER STREET, Chudleigh SX 8679 6/70 The Retreat
- II
House. Early C19, probably a refashioning of an earlier house. Colourwashed plastered stone to ground floor level, stud walling to first floor level, slate mansard roof, gabled at ends; end stacks, axial stack. Single depth plan, 2 rooms wide with 2 principal heated front rooms, one on each side of a cross passage with a stair adjacent to the passage and a series of rear lean-tos and projections. A large lean-to at the left end was added as a kitchen in the 1870s (stack dismantled) and is now used for storage. The disposition of the stacks and documentation in the possession of the owner suggests that the origins of the house date back to the C17 although later remodelling has obscured or removed the earlier details. 2 storeys and attic. Almost symmetrical 3-bay front with a C20 glazed porch in the centre, 2-storey canted bays to left and right with small pane sash windows, the left hand bay slightly smaller than the right hand bay with fewer panes to the central sashes. Interior Numerous features of interest including joinery, local marble chimney- pieces, decorated plaster friezes, and a stick baluster stair with turned newels, a ramped handrail and a curved balustrade. One first floor C18 chimneypiece, complete with fire basket survives on the first floor. The house was formerly called Taverners.
Listing NGR: SX8687579749
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85327
- 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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