Hensleigh House Including Walls of Enclosed Garden
HENSLEIGH HOUSE INCLUDING WALLS OF ENCLOSED GARDEN, LONGDRAG HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384850
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Hensleigh House Including Walls of Enclosed Garden
- Statutory Address:
- HENSLEIGH HOUSE INCLUDING WALLS OF ENCLOSED GARDEN, LONGDRAG HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384850
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Hensleigh House Including Walls of Enclosed Garden
- Statutory Address 1:
- HENSLEIGH HOUSE INCLUDING WALLS OF ENCLOSED GARDEN, LONGDRAG HILL
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:
- HENSLEIGH HOUSE INCLUDING WALLS OF ENCLOSED GARDEN, LONGDRAG HILL
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 93394 12551
Details
TIVERTON
SS91SW LONGDRAG HILL, Hensleigh
848-1/4/88 Hensleigh House, including walls of
14/12/72 enclosed garden
GV II
Small country house. c1700 with possible earlier core. Brick
laid to Flemish bond; dry slate hipped roofs over modillion
cornices; some pedimented roof dormers; brick stacks with
moulded and dentilled cornices. Double-depth plan plus service
wing at rear projecting rear and right of right-hand corner;
some parts to rear demolished 1960s.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; symmetrical 5-window front.
Original 24-pane hornless sashes with thick glazing bars, all
the windows set flush with wall surface; blind windows to 2nd
from left bay. Central doorway (restored after removal of
Victorian alterations) has original spoked fanlight over
6-panel door; distyle Tuscan wooden porch.
Left-hand return is 6-window range garden front with alternate
blind windows; original sashes over mostly rebuilt early C19
canted bays to 2nd and 4th bays.
Right-hand return is 6-window range over basement with most
openings blind; tall stair window to 4th from left bay;
original sashes to bay right of this.
Rear is blind except for 12-pane sash right of centre. Service
wing is 2-window range to front and has 12-pane sashes and
patterned overlight over panelled door on the left.
Garden front of wing has 3-bay opening with Tuscan columns.
INTERIOR: Pevsner notes that left-hand (south east) room has
fine Baroque moulded and carved plaster ceiling with
quatrefoil central panel, foliage scrolls, putti and two
eagles with laurel wreaths, bolection-moulded marble
chimneypiece and bolection-moulded oak panelling.
Right-hand (north east) room has early C19 window shutters
with inner beaded detail, early C19 Greek Revival cornice and
panelling in the style of c1600 which has some genuine pieces;
early C19 open-well stair.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rubble kitchen garden walls with
dressed stone arched doorways.
HISTORY: the home of Ambrose Brewin in the C19.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: 1989-: 819).
Listing NGR: SS9339412551
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485309
- 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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