Eastfield and Mellguards Including Boundary Wall and Gate and Gate Piers
EASTFIELD AND MELLGUARDS INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE AND GATE PIERS, 3, 5 AND 7, PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384870
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jun-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Eastfield and Mellguards Including Boundary Wall and Gate and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- EASTFIELD AND MELLGUARDS INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE AND GATE PIERS, 3, 5 AND 7, PARK ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384870
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jun-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Eastfield and Mellguards Including Boundary Wall and Gate and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- EASTFIELD AND MELLGUARDS INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE AND GATE PIERS, 3, 5 AND 7, PARK ROAD
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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:
- EASTFIELD AND MELLGUARDS INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE AND GATE PIERS, 3, 5 AND 7, PARK 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 95716 13188
Details
TIVERTON
SS9513 PARK ROAD, Tiverton
848-1/5/235 (East side)
29/06/90 Nos.3, 5 AND 7
Eastfield and Mellguards, incl
boundary wall, gate & gate piers
(Formerly Listed as:
PARK ROAD
(East side)
No.7)
GV II
Pair of semi-detached houses (Mellguards now sub-divided).
Eastfield mid C19 with late C20 addition, Mellguards late C19.
MATERIALS: Eastfield has solid, rendered walls; Mellguards is
of yellow brick with dressings of red brick and stone. Hipped
slated roofs. Eastfield has 2 rendered chimneys, centrally
placed at either end of roof. Mellguards has a single yellow
brick stack with red brick bands, consisting of 6 diagonally
set shafts and placed in the centre of the roof.
PLAN: 4-square, double-depth.
EXTERIOR: Eastfield has 2-storeys with 3-window symmetrical
front. decorated band between the storeys. Deeply projecting
bracketed eaves cornice. Segmental-headed openings. 4-panelled
door, the 2 upper panels glazed. French window at either side.
6-paned sashes in upper storey. In front of ground storey an
open-fronted glazed verandah with elaborately-braced wooden
uprights.
Mellguards has 2-storeys, the front with a pair of canted bay
windows, the light segmental-headed. Pedestal course of
patterned red brick and carved stone between storeys. Deeply
projecting bracketed eaves cornice. At left-hand end a doorway
with wooden entrance porch which is an extension of the
verandah at Eastfield.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: front boundary wall to Park Road is of
stone rubble with flat stone coping (the coping replaced in
concrete at right-hand end). At left-hand end, where the wall
turns eastwards, is a square stone pier with a low pyramidical
cap.
At the entrance to Eastfield the wall turns inwards to form 2
quadrants; square wooden gateposts with shaped tops, wooden
gate with diagonally set, intersecting braces. At right-hand
end the entrance to Mellguards has 2 square stone gate piers
with low pyramidical caps.
HISTORY: the 25 inch Ordnance Survey map of 1903 shows this as
a single house called Eastfield. The name Mellguards is not
shown, nor the present entrance to that part of the building.
Nos.3 & 5 were not formerly listed.
Listing NGR: SS9571613188
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485329
- 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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