Coleton Fishacre
COLETON FISHACRE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324859
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Coleton Fishacre
- Statutory Address:
- COLETON FISHACRE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324859
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Coleton Fishacre
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLETON FISHACRE
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:
- COLETON FISHACRE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kingswear
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 90926 50810
Details
SX 95 SW KINGSWEAR
10/26 Coleton Fishacre
21.4.83
- II
Small country house in landscaped gardens 1925-6 by Oswald Milne for Rupert d'Oyly Carte. Locally quarried slate rubble. Delabole slate roof with gabled ends. Asymmetrical Y-shaped on plan. Two storeys. North west entrance front was a two storey three-sided hipped roof porch in the obtuse angle of two wings of unequal length. The longer right hand wing has large external chimney stack on front wall with set off and tall flue. The left hand wing has round-arched carriageway through. The central doorway has hollow-chamfered stone frame and moulded twelve-panel oak door. Over left hand gable end a wrought iron weather- vane. Circular forecourt has radiating granite sets. The south front door has two asymmetrical wings at obtuse angle, the long right hand (east) wing has two storey semi-circular bay with semi-conical roof and stone stack over ridge. The left hand (west) wing has a carved stone sundial under the eaves. Oak window frames throughout with iron casements with leaded panes, the ground floor have flat stone arches. Set back to right hand of east wing one storey and attic wing with two hipped dormer in a catslide roof over an open loggia with square stone rubble piers. Long paved terrace along the south front with low parapet and dry- stone slate rubble retaining walls with a half-domed niche over a circular pond with a fountain on the lower terrace. Interior: Circular porch leads to hall passage at the back of the east wing. Open well staircase with panelled balustrade. Vaulted bedroom corridor. Doorway with superimposed stepped archi- trave to semi-circular steps leading into saloon at lower level. Panelled and shelved library has overmantel with birdseye-view painting, by Spencer Hoffman, of the peninsula, with a wind-dial above. Bolection moulded chimney pieces and door frames, panelled doors, and coved and moulded cornices. The original elec- tric light fittings survive. Situated in gardens, planted by Lady Dorothy d'Oyley Carte, in a wooded coomb overlooking Pudcombe Cove. Coleton Fishacre is the property of the National Trust. Reference: Country Life, Vol 67, May 31st, 1930, pp 782-9.
Listing NGR: SX9092650810
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100563
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country LIfe in 31 May, Vol. 67, (1930), 782-789
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,
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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