Collipriest House
COLLIPRIEST HOUSE, COLLIPRIEST LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384802
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Collipriest House
- Statutory Address:
- COLLIPRIEST HOUSE, COLLIPRIEST LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384802
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Collipriest House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLLIPRIEST HOUSE, COLLIPRIEST LANE
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:
- COLLIPRIEST HOUSE, COLLIPRIEST LANE
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 95352 11697
Details
TIVERTON
SS91SE COLLIPRIEST LANE, Collipriest
848-1/7/65 Collipriest House
12/02/52
(Formerly Listed as:
COLLIPRIEST ROAD, Collipriest
Collipriest House)
GV II
Country house, now residential flats. Early C18 south front,
main front c1778 by Thomas Winslow.
MATERIALS: stucco and render with stucco detail; steep (except
for service wing) dry slate hipped roofs; rendered end stack
on left, 2 stacks rear of front range, axial stack to
left-hand service wing and lateral stack to left of right-hand
wing.
PLAN: large U-shaped plan with double-depth range at the
front, service wing at right angles behind left-hand side and
early C18 south garden front at right angles behind right-hand
side.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey front, 2-storey service wings; symmetrical
1:5:1-window front with end bays projecting forward. Mostly
early C19 12-pane hornless sashes. Central open-pedimented
Doric porch with round-arched doorway; traceried overlight
with scrolled detail over original pair of 3-panel doors with
fielded panels. Stucco detail includes mid-floor bands and
modillion cornice to parapet. 2:3:2-window right-hand (south)
return has pedimented centre broken forward: keyed oculus to
pediment, bellcote over; round-arched openings with spoked
fanlight heads to ground floor and to 2 bays on right.
INTERIOR: not inspected except to note fine entrance hall with
good plasterwork and two Ionic columns surviving from later
C18 phase.
HISTORY: Collipriest was the home of the Carews and the
Blundells. In the entrance hall is a photograph of a 1763
portrait of Mrs Thomas Winslow, who lived at Collipriest and
was related to Sir Joshua Reynolds.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: 1989-: 278-9).
Listing NGR: SS9535211697
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485261
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 278-9
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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