BICKHAM HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1333931
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:: BICKHAM HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BICKHAM HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1333931
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:: BICKHAM HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BICKHAM 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:: BICKHAM HOUSE

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County:: Devon
District:: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Kenn
National Grid Reference:: SX9151684364

Details

KENN SX 98 SW

5/130 Bickham House 11.11.52

GV II*

Country house. Early C18 core, remodelled and extended in the early C19. The earlier fabric is cob on stone rubble footings, the early C19 sandstone, all colourwashed and plastered ; slate roof behind parapet, gableted and half- hipped to the early block ; stacks with brick shafts. Plan: The high quality C18 house was east-facing, probably with a central entrance into a stair hall. The remodelling took place both within the shell of the C18 house and extended it, and the present plan is that of the early C19; the main block 3 rooms wide ; double depth; with a central entrance into a heated hall, a full depth principal room to the left, a dining room that projects to the front at the right, a service range at the extreme right and the early C18 stair retained to the rear of the entrance hall but partitioned off from it. The early C19 interior is very intact. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical east front with a moulded cornice below the parapet the bow-fronted dining room projecting to the front at the right end of the main block ; 4 windows above a portico to the left of the projection ; 5 window front to the service block, set back at the right end. To the left the ground floor, blind except for the front door, is recessed behind a 7-bay Tuscan portico, the columns paired on either side of the front door and at the left end, the portico returning for 4 bays at the left. Wide panelled C19 front door with glazed panels to left and right of the door and a rectangular fanlight with diamond glazing bars ; first floor C19 and C20 sash windows with glazing bars. The dining room, to the right, has 3 large 12-pane sash windows. The service block, at the extreme right has five first floor and 3 ground floor windows, mostly large small-pane early C19 sashes. The left return of the main block has 3 early C19 2-leaf transomed French windows with glazing bars behind the portico, one first floor sash and 2 blind windows. The rear elevation of the main block incorporates part of the rear wall of the early C18 house with deep coved eaves, a central pediment with an oeil-de-boeuf and a large round-headed stair window with glazing bars, the other windows are sashes with glazing bars except an early C20 bay window, ground floor right. The service block, to the left, retains its early C19 sashes and rear service door. Interior: Early C18 features include the open string stair with turned balusters and wall panelling ; good panelled doors, some on the ground floor, numerous on the first floor with more modest 2 panel doors on the attic storey. The early C19 interior features include good marble chimneypiece, plaster cornices and shutters. A handsome evolved country house, the seat of the Short family, described in 1822 as "now of Bickham, in Kenne" (Lysons). The house was illustrated by Swete in 1795.

Lysons, D. and S., Magna Britannia, vol. VI: Devonshire vol I, p. 154.

Swete, 'Picturesque sketches of Devon', vol 11 (1795). MS held by the Devon Record Office.

Listing NGR: SX9151684364

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Legacy System number:: 85794
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Lysons, Reverend D, Lysons, S, Magna Britannia Devonshire Part 2, (1822), 154
Swete, J, Swetes Picturesque Sketches of Devon, (1792-1801)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.