School House
SCHOOL HOUSE, MOUNT DINHAM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380585
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- School House
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL HOUSE, MOUNT DINHAM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380585
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOOL HOUSE, MOUNT DINHAM
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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:
- SCHOOL HOUSE, MOUNT DINHAM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Exeter (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX9148992739
Details
SX 99 SW
871/24/10088
23-JUN-00
MOUNT DINHAM
School House
GV
II
House, associated with former Mount Dinham School, possibly originally the master's house. c. 1862. Built for William Gibbs, architect unknown to date. Flemish bond brick with painted stone dressings; slate roof, stack with red brick shaft with brick band. Tudor style.
Plan: Sited at the NW end of the main range of the school (qv) and set forward from it, forming an overall U plan with matching building at the SW end of the range. This house is approximately rectangular on plan with a porch on the NE side.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Coped gables with kneelers. Asymmetrical 3-window front, the right hand bay broken forward and gabled to the front. Main block roofed at right angles is gabled at the left end. Projecting porch in angle between the 2 blocks has lean-to roof and quoined Tudor arched outer doorway with one-light window in left return. Ground floor windows are 3-light and transomed with quoined jambs, outer first floor windows similar but 2 lights; 2-light window above the porch. The left return has a canted bay on the ground floor with transomed window and a 3-light window above with a hoodmould.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.
This is part of an outstanding Victorian group, planned and funded by William Gibbs of Tyntesfield, a wealthy merchant, philanthropist and patron of buildings, who was born in Exeter. Gibbs funded the school, Free Cottages for the elderly and St Michael's Church (qv), all on an empty site on a bluff above the Exe which, according to Greenaway, had been bought by John Dinham to prevent its being used as a fairground, thus saving 'the morals of the young'. Dinham presented the land to the city and Gibbs built on it.
Listing NGR: SX9148992739
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480908
- 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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