Bolham House
BOLHAM HOUSE, BOLHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384771
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bolham House
- Statutory Address:
- BOLHAM HOUSE, BOLHAM ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14315/35
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384771
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bolham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOLHAM HOUSE, BOLHAM 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:
- BOLHAM HOUSE, BOLHAM ROAD
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 95037 14609
Details
TIVERTON
SS91SE BOLHAM ROAD, Bolham
848-1/7/52 Bolham House
12/02/52
GV II
Country house. C18 origins, remodelled early C19, on site of
earlier house. Stucco with moulded plinth and mid-floor
string; dry slate hipped roof with wide eaves carried on
brackets; rendered stacks over the hips and over other cross
walls; many octagonal clay pots; cast-iron ogee gutters.
PLAN: double-depth plan with large central entrance hall and
large stair hall linked to axial passage right through the
house, plus lower service wing at rear right, and early C20
ballroom at rear left.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; regular 1:2:1 window entrance and garden
front with 2-storey bowed windows to end bays and 3-bay
round-arched loggia to ground floor between. Original hornless
sashes with glazing bars. 2:4-window range left-hand return
has single-storey ballroom on the left and original garden
front on the right with alternate single and tripartite
sashes; verandah with ramped glazed and part leaded roof to
ground floor. 4:2-window range right-hand return is entrance
front with pedimented doorway under left-hand window of
service wing; 4-pane overlight and 6-panel door.
INTERIOR: has good original features where inspected: stair
hall has plaster barrel vault, plus lantern, over open-well
staircase to balcony with curved ends; cast-iron balustrade
with anthemion balusters over an open string. Left of the
stair hall is a small plaster-vaulted oval vestibule, left of
this an entrance hall with moulded plaster ceiling cornice. In
front of the stair hall, and linked to it by 3 doorways, is a
large entrance hall with moulded plaster ceiling cornice.
The flanking reception rooms have early C19 plaster bands with
trailing vine over moulded cornices with egg and dart
enrichment, and central acanthus roses, the rose to the room
on the right with a guilloche border.
Room behind small entrance hall has similar ceiling cornice.
All the doorways have moulded architraves and 6-panel doors,
most with fielded panels and there are panelled window
shutters.
Various old or original chimneypieces include good marble
chimneypiece to left-hand room.
HISTORY: Bolham House was once the home of Sir Walter Raleigh,
later it was the home of the Amorys, until they moved to the
newly-built Knightshayes Court (qv).
Listing NGR: SS9503714609
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485230
- 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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