Woodbury House
WOODBURY HOUSE, GREENWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333301
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Woodbury House
- Statutory Address:
- WOODBURY HOUSE, GREENWAY
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- Date:
- 2002-08-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/08670/14
- Rights:
- © Mr Terence Harper. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333301
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Woodbury House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODBURY HOUSE, GREENWAY
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:
- WOODBURY HOUSE, GREENWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SY0108587139
Details
SY 08 NW
2/120
WOODBURY
GREENWAY, Woodbury
Woodbury House
GV
II
Detached house. Built 1781 for Philip Lempriere, Attorney General of Jersey (1758-
69). Brick in Flemish bond; gabled-end slate roof, the gables with heavy coping.
Double-depth plan with principal room on either side of central stair hall,
secondary rooms at rear, and with 2 rear service ends. Internal end stacks (1 set
axially to the left, 2 to the right) with 2 rear wings. 2 storeys.
Front: symmetrical 3-window range with parapet; all windows tripartite 4:12:4 pane
hornless sash windows except for 1st floor central window which has a single 12-
pane horned sash. Central doorway with moulded architrave, and canopy on console
brackets; quarter glazed fielded panel door with traceried rectangular fanlight. 3
full dormers, each of 2 lights. Right-hand end with rainwater head, dated 'P.L.
1781'. 2 lower rear wings, both of 2 storeys, that to the right with 4;6;4 pane
tripartite sash window, a 12-pane sash, and 2 casement windows. Some later
casements to the other wing; axial stack to former, end stack to latter wing.
Reference: Ursula W Brighouse, Woodbury, A View from the Beacon (1918) especially
p,111
Listing NGR: SY0108587139
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88633
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brighouse, U W, Woodbury A View from the Beacon, (1981), 111
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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