Nork House
NORK HOUSE, 15, GRAVEL WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326174
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Nork House
- Statutory Address:
- NORK HOUSE, 15, GRAVEL WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326174
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Nork House
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORK HOUSE, 15, GRAVEL WALK
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:
- NORK HOUSE, 15, GRAVEL WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cullompton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 02229 07162
Details
CULLOMPTON GRAVEL WALK, Cullompton ST 00 NW 10/114 No. 15 (Nork House) - GV II
Substantial detached house occupying a prominent position to the east of the parish church. 1888. All red brick with blue-black brick, terracotta and a little Portland stone detailing, under steeply pitched gabled-end slate roofs with crested ridge tiles. T-shaped plan. 2 storeys. Front (ie towards church): left-hand gabled-end wing of 1 wide bay; main range of 2 bays (with paired 1st floor horned 2-pane sash windows per bay), the right-hand bay separately gabled. Upper parts of both gable walls filled with terracotta detailing. Gables with fascia and finials. Canted bay to right-hand side; main entrance with terracotta pilasters, segmental pediment also filled with terracotta; semi-circular headed doorway with keystone; door glazed and panelled with semi-circular fanlight. Upper paired windows to wing with shaped aprons; stone sills to all others, and all under brick window arches. Blue-black brick courses at sill and lintel level. Dominant brick stacks (1 to wing, 2 to right-hand side elevation) with deeply recessed panels, and (to the end stacks) pediments at eaves level. Rear with canted bays, the main door with stone lintel, and much terracotta detailing. Interior: notable for its intactness and the high quality of its craftsmanship. Hall with all-over floor tiling; mitred floorboards to main rooms; all doors with elaborate eared architraves and broken segmental pediments, the doors themselves panelled in Oregon pine and mahogany. Patterned glass to internal partitions, and to large stairwell window, the central panels of which contain floral and foliage design. Staircase with turned balusters, and panelled string. Dining room with massive cast-iron chimneypiece in the Jacobean mode; the other main reception room with Carrera marble chimneypiece, and an embossed wallpaper frieze. The house is listed primarily for the quality of its interior features, although its exterior is finely detailed as well.
Listing NGR: ST0223007164
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95304
- 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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