Ashley Court
ASHLEY COURT, EXETER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384806
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ashley Court
- Statutory Address:
- ASHLEY COURT, EXETER ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384806
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Ashley Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHLEY COURT, EXETER 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:
- ASHLEY COURT, EXETER 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 94975 10572
Details
TIVERTON
SS91SW EXETER ROAD, Ashley
848-1/4/38 (West side)
12/02/52 Ashley Court
(Formerly Listed as:
CREDITON ROAD
Ashley Court)
GV II
Small country house. Early C19, possibly incorporating remains
of 1657 house built by John Upcott, a Tiverton Wool merchant,
all built within part of what was once Henry II's hunting
park. Plain stucco walls; large slate hipped roof with very
deep eaves on paired brackets; rendered stacks over the cross
walls. Double-depth plan plus service rooms at rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window front. Mid C19
3-light casements with margin panes, to 1st-floor left and
right, otherwise late C19 French windows at the front
(original early C19 hornless sashes with glazing bars to
service rooms at rear and to returns towards rear at left and
right); fine cast-iron verandah with bowed centre and scrolled
and anthemion detail; tripartite doorway within rusticated
stucco surround, fielded panelled door.
3-window right-hand return (front block) has casement windows
with margin panes to 1st floor, later transomed windows below,
all within stucco architraves, those to 1st floor with hoods.
4-window left-hand return (front block) has 2-storey canted
bay on right.
Good unaltered group of service wings at rear includes apple
loft with pyramidal roof surmounted by pyramidal-roofed
louvre.
INTERIOR: has good quality features including moulded and
carved ceiling cornices and bands to reception area, panelled
doors and window shutters and open-well staircase with open
string and mahogany handrail; Victorian chimneypieces where
inspected.
HISTORY: Ashley Court was once the home of Thomas Cosway, an
uncle of the Tiverton painter Richard Cosway.
(Western Morning News article (from undated cutting)).
Listing NGR: SS9497510572
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485265
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Western Morning News in Western Morning News, ()
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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