Manor Offices
MANOR OFFICES, NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317848
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Offices
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR OFFICES, NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317848
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR OFFICES, NORTH ROAD
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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:
- MANOR OFFICES, NORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Holsworthy
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 34300 03872
Details
SS3403 HOLSWORTHY CP NORTH ROAD (West side)
16/39 Manor Offices
GV II
Council offices and museum, formerly rectory. Late C18 altered mid C20. Render grooved as ashlar, random rubble service wing, shallow pitch asbestos slate roof to main elevation, boxed eaves on facade, external stacks gable ends cut off below apex of roof, hipped stair case block to rear. T-plan, double fronted block with central corridor leading to stairhall with long service wing behind. 2 storeys, 3 bays; first floor 12-pane sash windows, ground floor French windows with marginal glazing bars, left hand window partly blocked, central Doric porch with reproduction door of 6 raised and fielded panels, rectangular light above with diamond pane. Right return fronting carpark: gable end with French windows flanking chimney projection, no marginal glazing bars but original internal shutters. Stair block: first floor 16-pane sash window,French window with marginal glazing bars below, two 12-pane sashes above in cross gable of service wing 4-light casement below, long range with two 2-light casements. Interior: remains of C18 raised and fielded panelling, door and dentil moulded cornice now in corrridor adjoining stairwell, turned balusters, moulded handrail swept up to newels, late C19 coloured glass to stairlight window, and short flight of stairs on first floor flanked by balusters swept back around newels; this room not seen. The rectory garden formerly contained The Labyrinth, a maze covering half an acre with a tree and seat in the centre. Laid out by Viscount Mahon in 1821, it was generally considered to be the only feature of interest for the visitor to Holsworthy until its destruction in the early C20. The site is now a carpark. The rectory was sold by the Church Commissioners to the District Council in 1947. (Leeson Day, Holsworthy, Devonshire Association Parochial Histories, 1934.)
Listing NGR: SS3430003872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91943
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Day, Leeson, Devonshire Association Parochial Histories in Holsworthy, (1934)
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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