Wood House Lodge
WOOD HOUSE LODGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326115
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Wood House Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- WOOD HOUSE LODGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326115
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Wood House Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOD HOUSE LODGE
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:
- WOOD HOUSE LODGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Tawton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 65310 95699
Details
SX 69 NE SOUTH TAWTON
1/189 Wood House Lodge
GV II
Lodge to Wood House (q.v.). 1899-1905 by Thomas Mawson or Dan Gibson, renovated and enlarged circa 1980. Roughcast walls and stacks of stone rubble or brick; granite ashlar detail; slate roof. Plan: originally a 2- or 3-room plan cottage facing onto the drive to north. T- shaped plan with 2-room main block and right end gable end stack. Gabled bay projects forward just left of centre. This may originally have been a separate room and it has a projecting lateral stack on the left side. Entrance porch in angle of front bay (right side) and main block. Circa 1980 the rooms were all knocked into one and new service rooms built onto the rear. Single storey. Exterior: the gabled front end of the bay has a canted bay window with 2-lights each side; granite mullioned with roll-moulded elliptical head lights and sunken spandrels. It contains replacement rectangular panes of leaded glass. To right of the bay a plain granite mullioned 2-light window with simple slate dripcourse above (a 3-light version in the right end wail). Panelled oak door to porch. Roofs are gable-ended. Interior: is largely the result of the circa 1980 renovation. This lodge is part of an extensive landscaping scheme conceived by Mawson to go with the rebuilding of Wood House (q.v.). Mawson himself considered the whole scheme as one of his major achievements. Source: T H Mawson The Art and Craft of Garden Making, (5th edition) includes copious notes and illustrations of Wood House.
Listing NGR: SX6531095699
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94986
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mawson, T H, The Art and Craft of Garden Making, (1907)
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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