MONTEFIORE

MONTEFIORE, PENNSYLVANIA ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380670
Date first listed:: 23-Jun-2000
List Entry Name:: MONTEFIORE
Statutory Address:: MONTEFIORE, PENNSYLVANIA ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380670
Date first listed:: 23-Jun-2000
List Entry Name:: MONTEFIORE
Statutory Address 1:: MONTEFIORE, PENNSYLVANIA ROAD

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:: MONTEFIORE, 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:: SX9244793868

Details

SX 9293 PENNSYLVANIA ROAD 871/12/10112 (West side) 23-JUN-00 Montefiore

II

Villa, in use as hall of residence for students at time of inspection. c.1840s. Mass wall construction, stuccoed and blocked out. Slate M-roof with red ridge tiles with ornate finials. Cast iron rainwater goods. Ornamental pierced curling barge boards. Elaborate hexagonal chimney pots. Picturesque with some Gothick & some Egyptian detail. Plan: Deep rectangular plan with tower to right return and single storey projection to left. Axial and end stacks. Exterior: 2 storeys plus attics. Asymmetrical front with scattered fenestration. Porch right of centre with elaborate openwork iron columns with Egyptian capitals and decorative iron work frieze. Large rectangular overlight with single vertical glazing bar. 2 leaf door with a large fielded panel to each. Small paned casements throughout. Right return, garden elevation has 2:3:2-bay front with Canted projecting tower in centre with steep pyramidal roof (reduced in height). Casement windows throughout with lozenge shaped glazing bars on this elevation. Picturesque roof dormers in tower with fancy bargeboards. On either side of the tower there are first floor balconies supported by large shaped brackets; C20 railings. Left return: Central bay broken forward and gabled. Single storey extension projecting from ground floor left. Scattered fenestration with casements throughout, though a single 3 light casement exists at ground floor. Rear elevation: Scattered fenestration with some casements, some C20 windows, one transomed window with bottom opening casement to ground floor right and small paned casement with 4 vertical glazing bars to ground floor left. 4 panelled rear door. INTERIOR: Only partially inspected. Some internal window shutters remain at ground floor level. Open well stair and inner entrance door remain as do some other features. Internal partitions have been altered for present use as hall of residence. Historical Note: This area of Pennsylvania was laid out in the 1830s with three large villas, Elliott Cottage (now Spreytonway) and Swiss Cottage (demolished). Montefiore, previously known as Ibsley Cottage, was the third villa and preserves its character of a large villa in extensive grounds. (H. Harvey, Discovering Exeter: Pennsylvania, Exeter, 1984, pp.11-13).

Listing NGR: SX9244793868

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Legacy System number:: 480994
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Harvey, H, Discovering Exeter: Pennsylvania, (1984), 11-13

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