52 and 54 St David's Hill
52 and 54, St David's Hill
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380681
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- 52 and 54 St David's Hill
- Statutory Address:
- 52 and 54, St David's Hill
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380681
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- 52 and 54 St David's Hill
- Statutory Address 1:
- 52 and 54, St David's Hill
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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:
- 52 and 54, St David's Hill
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 91482 93033
Details
SX 9093
871/11/10114
ST DAVID'S HILL (east side)
52 and 54
23-JUN-00
II
Pair of large houses, now divided into flats. c.1880s. Yellow brick in Flemish bond with red brick bands and freestone dressings. Hipped slate roof with red ridge tiles; red brick chimney shafts with enriched cornices; some round chimney pots with louvred tops; cast iron rainwater goods. High Victorian eclectic style.
Plan: deep rectangular plans with rooms heated by end and axial chimney stacks.
Exterior: two storeys plus attic; entrance blocks two storey. Symmetrical, four bay front, the centre bays broken forward and taller with crow-stepped gables to the front. Lower roofed outer entrance blocks have moulded brick eaves brackets and porches with steep crow-stepped gables in the angles with the centre bays. The porches have pilastered outer doorways with carved capitals and oriental double ogee arches to the outer doorways. Shouldered plank front doors with Gothic strapwork hinges and arched overlights. All windows have cranked arched stone heads and are glazed with two-pane sashes. Centre bays have canted bays with crenellated parapets above an enriched cornice. The window arches spring from carved floral capitals. Above the bay, each first floor has paired sashes with a one-light window in gable. Outer bays have one ground floor window next to the porch and one to the first floor.
INTERIOR: inner porches with half glazed door with four panes and two panels below. Rectangular overlight. No.52 has panelled doors and other original fittings remaining, including attractive floor tiles.
Group value with Caröe's Church of St David (qv), adjacent to the left. This is a striking pair of High Victorian houses at the upper end of a good street with many historic buildings.
Listing NGR: SX9148293033
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481005
- 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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