Loventor
LOVENTOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324893
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Loventor
- Statutory Address:
- LOVENTOR
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06300/14
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324893
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Loventor
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOVENTOR
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:
- LOVENTOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Berry Pomeroy
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 84656 62842
Details
SX 86 SW BERRY POMEROY AFTON
5/10 Loventor
9.2.61
- II
Country house in use as an hotel. Circa late C16 with C18 wings remodelled in early C19. The late C16 house is the north-east range. Roughcast stone rubble. Slate roof with gabled ends. Two storeys. Long five-window range. C18 two, three and four-light casements with glazing bars. Gabled two-storey porch to left of centre with round-arch doorway with C20 casement above. Inner doorway to cross passage has heavy moulded wooden doorframe and original moulded and panelled nail-studded door. A similar doorframe at opposite end of cross passage and a round-arched stone porch now within the building. The rear porch can be seen at the back in a yard which is formed by the addition of two C18 wings which form a U-shaped plan. The wings are roughcast stone with low pitched hipped slate roofs with paired brackets to eaves soffit. Two storeys. South front seven bays. Sash window with glazing bars. Central doorway with porch with Tuscan columns supporting entablature with pulvinated frieze and pediment, bolection moulded door. West elevation 1:4:1 bays of sashes complete with glazing bars. Rendered chimney stacks with cornices, one at gable end of original house. Interior: Ground floor room with niche with segmental arch and fluted pilasters, and moulded plaster cornice. Two rooms with C18 chimney pieces and moulded plaster cornices, one with frieze. C18 staircase with two balusters per tread and moulded handrail ramped up to column newels.
Listing NGR: SX8465662842
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100548
- 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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