Chevithorne Barton
CHEVITHORNE BARTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384703
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Chevithorne Barton
- Statutory Address:
- CHEVITHORNE BARTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384703
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Chevithorne Barton
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHEVITHORNE BARTON
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:
- CHEVITHORNE BARTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tiverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS9855915864
Details
TIVERTON
SS91NE
848-1/2/62
12/02/52
CHEVITHORNE
Chevithorne Barton
II*
Manor house. Early C17, seat of the Frauncis (until 1664) and
Prideaux (until C19) families; rear service wing, rebuilt in
C19, remodelled in 1930 by Sir Albert Richardson for the
Heathcote-Amorys.
MATERIALS: render on rubble except for the freestone door and
window dressings and copings; steep dry slate gabled roofs
with 4 front gables which increase in size from the left;
gable copings with moulded kneelers; rendered brick stacks: 2
rear lateral stacks with paired shafts (centre and left, 2
single stacks (towards left and towards right), the right-hand
stack unrendered, and larger end stack on the right.
PLAN: overall large E-shaped plan including service wings at
rear, the latter remodelled 1930 to provide a large L-plan
living room. Front range is large 3-room plan with cross
passage towards left, central hall and slightly-projecting
parlour wing on the right.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with 2nd-floor rooms partly in roof space;
1:1:2:1-bay range with wider parlour front projecting on the
right. Square hoodmoulds over original 2, 3 and 4-light
mullioned windows. 1-window-range entrance bay has wide
round-arched moulded doorway with hoodmould.
INTERIOR: Pevsner notes C17 features including four-centred
first-floor doorway, open-well stair with ball finials to
heavy newels, and the Oak Room in east wing with fluted
pilasters to Jacobean panelling and fine plasterwork to
frieze, single-rib ceiling and especially the overmantle with
Orpheus and the figures of Hope and Wisdom.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: 1989-: 258).
Listing NGR: SS9855915864
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485157
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 258
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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