Ernsborough Court
ERNSBOROUGH COURT, FAIRPARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380883
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Ernsborough Court
- Statutory Address:
- ERNSBOROUGH COURT, FAIRPARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380883
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Ernsborough Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- ERNSBOROUGH COURT, FAIRPARK 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:
- ERNSBOROUGH COURT, FAIRPARK 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 92525 92244
Details
SX 9292 SE FAIRPARK ROAD
871/7/10051 (East side)
23-JUN-00 Ernsborough Court
II
Shown as Ernsborough House on OS map.
Large villa, sub-divided into flats in 1980, previously used as hospital after World War II. c.1860/1870s. Red brick with painted stucco dressings. Hipped slate roof with red ridge tiles. Rendered chimney shafts with bands. Some cast iron rainwater goods. Italianate style.
Plan: the main range is large and roughly U-plan with a main entrance between projecting left and right wings. Rooms heated by axial chimneystacks.
Exterior: 3 storey main block plus basements; front wings 2 storey. Deep eaves with stuccoed eavesband and moulded brackets to verges and eaves. Stucco bands at 1st and 2nd floor levels. Architraves to windows, some pilastered and round-headed with keyblocks, others eared and shouldered, some with cornices and brackets. Mostly 12-pane hornless sash windows, some C20 replacement windows, one 2-light small pane casement window at first floor level main range left. Tuscan loggia between front wings with balcony above with pierced stone balustrade. The show front is the right return with a 3:3-bay front. The side of the front wing, to the left, is symmetrical and 3 bays the centre bay broken forward and gabled with a broken pediment. The taller main block, to the right, is also broken forward in the centre with blind recesses against the chimneystack.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.
This is one of the best examples of a large mid Victorian Italianate brick and stucco villa in Exeter.
(G. Venn, Discovering Exeter: St Leonards, Exeter, 1982, p.32)
Listing NGR: SX9252592244
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481207
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Venn, G, Discovering Exeter: St Leonards, (1982), 32
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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