St Just
ST JUST, PENNSYLVANIA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380648
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- St Just
- Statutory Address:
- ST JUST, PENNSYLVANIA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380648
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- St Just
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST JUST, PENNSYLVANIA ROAD
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:
- ST JUST, PENNSYLVANIA ROAD
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 92448 93471
Details
SX 9293 PENNSYLVANIA ROAD
871/12/10107 (East side)
23-JUN-00 St Just
II
Large detached town house, now offices. 1887 (datestone). Brick and timber-framed with some tile-hanging; peg-tile roof; stacks with brick shafts, some with very tall shafts and corbelled cornices; original cast iron rainwater goods. Free Vernacular Revival style.
Plan: Approximately rectangular on plan with the entrance on Hillsborough Avenue.
Exterior: 2 & 3 storeys. Very unaltered externally and rich in detail. 3-bay entrance elevation facing Hillsborough Avenue, the right hand bay with a jettied timber-framed gable with deep verges with ornamental bargeboards to the 2nd floor. Projecting lateral stack to the left hand bay with convex corbelled shoulders. Recessed porch in centre bay with a lean-to roof supported on a 2-bay asymmetrical arcade. Front door to right under porch with geometric sunk panels and glazing bars to overlight and stained glass in side panels. The right hand bay has a 2-tier bay window with tile hanging with ornamental bands between the windows. Glazing pattern is of high-transomed casements, the detail in the upper lights varying from floor to floor - geometric with a central square on the ground floor; geometric with a central lozenge on he first floor and small square panes on the 2nd floor. Paired one-light windows in the chimneystack, 2nd floor, follow the same pattern. The garden elevation, facing Pennsylvania Road is also 3 bay, the left hand bay 2-storeys and set back. The main block has 2 2-tier canted bays with moulded brick corbels and pediments with a blind segmental-headed recess on the ground floor in the centre. Tile-hanging between the windows and to the second floor which is jettied on shaped brackets and has 2 gables to the front with deep ornamental bargeboards and herringbone framing in the gable. Ground & first floor windows glazed as on entrance elevation; 2nd floor windows are small-pane variants on the Ipswich window. The rear elevation has a lateral stack to the left and a pair of large stair windows in the centre bay. The lower window is 4-light and high-transomed and glazed with stained glass, with a panel of tile-hanging above and, above that, a small-pane window in a round-headed frame. The right hand bay has a first floor oriel on shaped brackets and a 3-light window above with a dormer-style gable. 2-storey service wing beyond is plainer.
INTERIOR: Partially inspected. Interior very complete including plaster cornices and doors, now with fire protection panels. Good staircase with slender turned balusters with scallop shell detail; stained glass in stair window includes initials. Panelling and other joinery survives.
Historical Note: St Just was built by the Brock family, who owned a furniture emporium in Exeter on the corner of North Street & Fore Street (information from the owners of St Just).
This is an exceptionally richly-detailed & very complete Vernacular Revival House.
Listing NGR: SX9244893471
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480971
- 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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