Kerswell House

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333631
Date first listed:: 20-May-1985
List Entry Name:: Kerswell House
Statutory Address:: Kerswell House

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333631
Date first listed:: 20-May-1985
List Entry Name:: Kerswell House
Statutory Address 1:: Kerswell House

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Kerswell House

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Broad Clyst
National Grid Reference:: SX 98089 95987

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 January 2024 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards

SX 99 NE 5/29

BROADCLYST Kerswell House

II

House. Circa 1840. Sandstone coursed rubble with Beer stone dressing, and slate roofs, all wings gabled-ended. A good asymmetrical design in a Tudor domestic style with varied detailing. Two storeys with attics throughout.

Entrance front: two wings of different widths with a projecting gabled porch and recessed stack between. Coped gables with pinnacle/pendants to prominent gable apexes. Single light attic windows to wings. Right-hand wing has a first storey tripartite stone oriel, two timber barred sashes to each light, the central sash with margin panes. Ground floor two-light window with stone transom and mullion under heavy hood mould, one pane to upper light, two to lower, all with margin panes. Left-hand wing much narrower; first floor window, two lights, with stone mullion, two four-pane sashes to each light; single-light ground floor window with two four-pane sashes, both windows under heavy hood-moulds. Porch with moulded pinnacle above four-centred arch and square-headed hood-mould with floriated spandrels. Recessed stack creates depth to entrance front with corbel table under four grouped and moulded Beer stone chimneys.

Garden front: a more relaxed composition of three units. Central wing, gable end with parapet and pinnacle/pendants to apex and angles and, below an attic window, a two-storey window bay with a crenellated frieze dividing each storey. Three-light windows to front of bay, one to each side, under hood moulds, all lights with two pane sashes with margin panes. The front to left of wing with two-light window above (with two four-pane sashes to each light), and a three-light window to ground floor with two 6-pane sashes to each light. To right of wing, two first storey windows with two four-pane sashes to each light, one two-light ground-floor window, six panes to each sash. All windows under hood moulds. At the right-hand angle of this front is a ground-floor window bay set diagonally, with a pair of single-light windows under the same hood mould, two six-pane sashes to each light. All sashes contemporary and timber. Other elevations all treated more simply, windows, with moulded architraves plus later barred timber sashes.

Historical note: the writer, Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) lived for many years at Kerswell House and died here.

Listing NGR: SX9808995987

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 88344
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.