THE OLD VICARAGE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384705
Date first listed:: 29-May-1996
List Entry Name:: THE OLD VICARAGE
Statutory Address:: THE OLD VICARAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384705
Date first listed:: 29-May-1996
List Entry Name:: THE OLD VICARAGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD VICARAGE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE OLD VICARAGE

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:: SS 97415 15431

Details

TIVERTON

SS91NE CHEVITHORNE 848-1/2/64 The Old Vicarage 29/05/96

II

House, formerly a vicarage. 1870-1 by William Burges for Sir John Heathcoat-Amory. Squared stone rubble with dressings of probably Ham stone ashlar. Tiled roof. 2 large plain chimneys of squared stone rubble, symmetrically placed on the ridge. Gothic Revival style. PLAN: 4-square main block with narrow central entrance and stair hall. At rear, to left, a wing originally containing larder, kitchen and scullery. EXTERIOR: single storey with garret. 3 windows wide. Chamfered centre doorway with pointed arch; recessed 6-panel door (2 rows of 3 panels) with sidelights. To right, a 5-light mullioned and transomed bay window with square sides and pent roof. To left, a 4-light mullioned and transomed window. Above, 3 dormer gables, each of 2 lights with chamfered copings and kneelers. All windows have plain, unmoulded stone surrounds; small-paned glazing with margin-panes, the glazing bars of iron. Side-elevations have windows like those at the front. INTERIOR: plain, but with original staircase (deal dog-leg with patterned balustrade), panelled doors (with chamfered panel-frames) and chimney pieces. These last, 3 on the ground floor and 3 above, have chamfered stone surrounds and mantelshelves, the openings segmental-headed downstairs and flat upstairs. A seventh chimneypiece is reported to have been moved to the coach-house at Knightshayes. On the upper floor the rear left-hand room has a round-arched cast-iron grate, probably original. The right-hand front and back rooms have narrower, rectangular iron grates with reeded surrounds and sliding shutters to regulate the draught; flanking them are panels of brown glazed tiling. The grates are believed to be original, although they look somewhat later. HISTORY: there exists a building history of the house written on 2 sheets of vellum by the first occupant, WH Askwith, licensed curate of Chevithorne Chapel. He relates that the vicarage was built, at his request, by Sir John Heathcoat-Amory of Knightshayes in 1870-1, at a cost of »700.

Listing NGR: SS9741515431

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Legacy System number:: 485159
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.