Meavy House
MEAVY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326407
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Meavy House
- Statutory Address:
- MEAVY HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326407
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Meavy House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEAVY 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:
- MEAVY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Meavy
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 54117 67246
Details
MEAVY MEAVY SX 56 NW 4/119 Meavy House - GV II
House, formerly vicarage. C17 re-modelled and extended in C18 and C19. Stucco and rendered rubble walls. Gable ended slate roof. 3 rendered stacks, one at each gable end of main part of house and lateral stack at rear. According to a terrier of 1613 (which locates this building in relation to the Church) the house then consisted of hall, parlour with chamber over and 2 other ground floor rooms with 2 chambers over. A malthouse or beerhouse was adjoining. These were all on the north side of a courtyard; on the south side was a dovehouse, a stable and a little gatehouse. There was a barn on the west side of the courtyard. A terrier of 1680 lists hall, parlour, kitchen, dairy and buttery with a gallery and 4 chambers above. The size of the house appears to have been little altered by 1727 according to the terrier of that date although there is no mention of the gatehouse. Although the earliest terrier makes it clear that the hall was still unceiled the subsequent ones do not specify where the chambers were - though the number remains the same - making it difficult to assess when the hall was floored over. Hall heated by rear lateral stack, lower room probably unheated. In later C18 the house was extended by one room at the right-hand end and a wing was added behind this extension in the late C18/early C19. The house was refronted probably at this stage then further extended at the right-hand end in the circa mid C19 and early C20. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5 window front of early C19 16 and 12 pane hornless sashes on the 1st floor. On the ground floor is a 16 pane sash to the left, a 4-light C19 casement with small panes to the left of centre and a late C19 4-pane sash to the right. To the right of centre is early C19 plaster doorcase of pilasters with moulded cornice; C19 4 panelled door, heavily moulded. The simply moulded eaves cornice is probably C18. Set back slightly from the right gable end is mid C19 extension with C20 addition projecting to the front from the right-hand end. Interior: Early C19 open string stick baluster staircase inserted into former inner room. Source: D.R.O.
Listing NGR: SX5411767246
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92705
- 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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