Powderham House
POWDERHAM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333963
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Powderham House
- Statutory Address:
- POWDERHAM HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333963
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Powderham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- POWDERHAM 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:
- POWDERHAM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Powderham
- National Grid Reference:
- SX9704784283
Details
SX 98 SE
6/341
POWDERHAM
Powderham House
II
Former rectory. 1878 (datestone), for Sir Hugh Courtenay, the service wing largely
dismantled in the 1970s and rebuilt in the 1980s as a castellated single-storey
block. Grey limestone with Bath stone dressings ; 2 span gabled slate roof ; stone
stacks with stone and brick shafts. Tudor, stylistically conservative for the date.
Plan: Double depth main block, 2 rooms wide with an approximately central entrance on
the north side into an entrance hall containing a dogleg stair with landing. Drawing
room and dining room to the rear, looking south across the park of Powderham Castle ;
front left study, front right service room, probably the butler's pantry; the service
wing, adjoins at the west end.
Exterior: 2 storeys to the main block, service wing now single-storey and rebuilt
with masonry from demolished Starcross hospital. Asymmetrical 2 window entrance
(north) front with a gabled 2-storey porch with a moulded Tudor arched doorframe, C19
plank front door with ornamental ironwork and a 2-light first floor mullioned and
transomed stair window above, the lights with segmental arched heads. To the left, a
projecting stack with set-offs to the study, to the right, a gable to the front with
one ground and one first lfoor 2-light mullioned and transomed windows with square-
headed lights. The left return and south elevation also have mullioned and transomed
windows, the garden (south) elevation projects to the front at the left with a gable
and has a canted bay window to the right lighting the drawing room. The service
block, set back at the left end has 1980s castellations but preserves much of the
1878 wall including a moulded doorframe and plank door.
Interior: Original joinery including panelled doors with chamfered stopped detail ;
shutters ; skirting boards and a stick baluster sair with chamfered balusters and
moulded handrail. Plaster cornices also survive. The chimney pieces are late C20
replacements. Pretty 1878 floor tiling to the porch.
Listing NGR: SX9704784283
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85988
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,
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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