Dinham House
DINHAM HOUSE, MOUNT DINHAM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380587
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Dinham House
- Statutory Address:
- DINHAM HOUSE, MOUNT DINHAM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380587
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Dinham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DINHAM HOUSE, MOUNT DINHAM
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:
- DINHAM 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:
- SX 91546 92702
Details
SX 9192 NE MOUNT DINHAM
871/2/10089 Dinham House
23-JUN-00
GV II
House, associated with the Mount Dinham complex, perhaps the incumbent's house for the Church of St Michael. c.1862, built for William Gibbs, architect unknown to date. Flemish bond brick with painted stone dressings; slate roof, stack with red brick chimneyshaft with brick band. Tudor style.
Plan: Sited next to the church and at the SE end of the main range of the school (qv) and set forward from it, forming an overall U-plan with matching building at the NE end of the range. This house is approximately rectangular on plan with a porch on the SW side.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Coped gables with kneelers. Asymmetrical 3-window front, the left hand bay slightly broken forward and gabled to the front. Main block at right angles is gabled at the right end. projecting gabled porch in middle bay with a chamfered arched doorway with quoined jambs and a plank door with strap hinges and one-light windows in the returns. Other windows are 2 and 3-light with quoined jambs, chamfered architraves and transoms. The right gable end, effectively the show front, has a canted ground floor bay window with a hipped slate roof and ovolo-moulded frames and transom. 2-light first floor window in similar style with a square-headed hoodmould; small one-light window in gable.
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 building, born in Exeter, who accommodated on the site a collection of Free Cottages for the elderly, a school and an ambitious church which contains his effigy in marble. According to Greenaway this was a virgin site which had been purchased by John Dinham to prevent its use as a fairground and thus save 'the morals of the young'. Dinham presented the land to the city and Gibbs built on it.
(J. Greenaway, Discovering Exeter: St Davids, Exeter, 1981, p.22).
Listing NGR: SX9154692702
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480910
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Greenaway, J, Discovering Exeter: St Davids, Exeter, (1981), 22
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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