Oldstone,ruins of House
OLDSTONE,RUINS OF HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325116
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Oldstone,ruins of House
- Statutory Address:
- OLDSTONE,RUINS OF HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325116
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Oldstone,ruins of House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLDSTONE,RUINS OF HOUSE
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:
- OLDSTONE,RUINS OF HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blackawton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 81697 51782
Details
BLACKAWTON SX85SW Oldstone, Ruins of House 2/6 7.10.76 GV II
Ruins of country house in farmer wall landscaped park. C18, possible with earlier remains, remodelled in C19 and later gutted by fire and now a roofless ruin. Dressed slate rubble. Photographs in the National Building Record of drawing and sketch plan of the house how a 7-bay south east front range with 2 principal rooms (drawing rooms on right dining room on left) and a central entrance. The C19 remodelling involved reorientating the house and the formation of a large stairhall at the back with an entrance porch on the left (South West) side in Gothic Style: The services were in ranges at the back. What now remains is roughly L-shaped on plan, the services having been destroyed. The front (south east) range, originally with a hipped roof and modillion eaves cornice, has a symmetrical 3-storey 7-bay facade, the top storey and heads of first floor windows have collapsed. There is a stringcourse at first floor level and a fine limestone Doric portico with engaged columns, triglyphs in the frieze and triangular pediment. The left hand return has a 2-storey gabled projection with a large 3-light Gothic style window lighting the stairhall with Perpendicular tracery and a porch below with a chamfered 4-centred arch. To left a gable with a projecting stack terminating in a square cap and short round pillars. Also in the National Building Record is a photograph of a drawing of the drawing room showing a late C18 interior with a Neo-classical moulded plaster ceiling and chimneypiece. Oldstone was probably an C11 estate (Hoskins). It was the seat of the Cholwiches, who rebuilt the house in the C18. Source W G Hoskins, Devon, National Buildings Record.
Listing NGR: SX8169751782
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99797
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hoskins, W G, A New Survey of England in Devon, (1972)
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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