Heavitree Social Centre
HEAVITREE SOCIAL CENTRE, 2, EAST WONFORD HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380880
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Heavitree Social Centre
- Statutory Address:
- HEAVITREE SOCIAL CENTRE, 2, EAST WONFORD HILL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380880
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Heavitree Social Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEAVITREE SOCIAL CENTRE, 2, EAST WONFORD HILL
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:
- HEAVITREE SOCIAL CENTRE, 2, EAST WONFORD 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 94352 92298
Details
SX 99 SW
871/24/10049
23-JUN-00
EAST WONFORD HILL
(South side)
2 Heavitree Social Centre
II
Large house, now used as local social centre. Late 1820s with later alterations. Previously known as Wingfield Park, then 'The Knoll'. Mass wall construction, stuccoed and blocked out. Hipped slate roof. Red brick chimney shafts with bands. Round tapering terracotta chimney pots. Greek detail to front.
Plan: Asymmetrical plan, the principal entrance on the west side. The north garden front is very prominent. Rooms heated by axial and front lateral chimney stacks.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Deep boxed eaves with paired brackets. Symmetrical 3-bay N front eaves band and clasping left and right pilasters with sunk panels, similar pilasters flank the central bay. Outer ground floor 16-pane sash windows are framed by pilasters with sunk panels and anthemion with stucco pediments over. Blind recess in centre with small, later window inserted. 16-pane sashes to first floor. Asymmetrical entrance elevation at right angles to the road with 3-sided porch in the angle with rear wing. Porch has slate roof extending as pentice on slender columns. 2-panel recessed door in timber doorcase with small-pane windows either side. Canted bay windows, reglazed, to left and right of porch. Some hornless sash windows at first floor.
INTERIOR: Dog leg staircase with wreathed handrail and square moulded balusters.
Historical Note: this house stands in the former Heavitree Park, created on land leased to Edward Eardley, an Exeter china-merchant. The lease required him to erect houses and out-buildings of brick and stone, not cob, and by 1829 he had built five houses here, including this one.
(T. Falla, Discovering Exeter: Heavitree, 1983, p.38)
Listing NGR: SX9435292298
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481204
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fallam, T, Discovering Exeter: Heavitree, (1983), 38
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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