Friars Lodge
FRIARS LODGE, MELBOURNE PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380689
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Friars Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- FRIARS LODGE, MELBOURNE PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380689
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Friars Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRIARS LODGE, MELBOURNE PLACE
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:
- FRIARS LODGE, MELBOURNE PLACE
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 92244 92047
Details
SX 9292 SW MELBOURNE PLACE
871/6/10073 (West side)
23-JUN-00 Friars Lodge
II
Large house divided into flats. c.1830s with later alterations. Mass wall construction, stuccoed and painted; slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with bands.
Plan: Large rectangular block with entrance on the W side with stair beyond and service block to rear.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-bay front with front door to left. Deep moulded cornice and eavesband below parapet. Steps up to pilastered doorcase with entablature and cornice; doorcase with panelled reveals. Windows have moulded architraves and are glazed with 12-pane hornless sashes; 2 windows to ground floor; 3 windows to first floor, the centre window blocked. The right return preserves 2 first and 2 ground floor similar windows plus two small C20 windows. The end of the service block at the right end has no parapet and a hipped slate roof and had 12-pane hornless sashes.
INTERIOR: partially inspected. Original staircase survives with stick balusters and mahogany handrail; ground floor shutters survive and there may be other features of interest.
Group value in an area of mixed high quality and modest housing of the first half of the C19.
Listing NGR: SX9224492047
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481013
- 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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