GOTHAM HOUSE INCLUDING FORECOURT WALLS AND ENTRANCE GATES

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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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GOTHAM HOUSE INCLUDING FORECOURT WALLS AND ENTRANCE GATES, PHOENIX LANE

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TIVERTON

SS9512 PHOENIX LANE, Tiverton 848-1/6/248 (South West side) 12/02/52 Gotham House including forecourt walls and entrance gates (Formerly Listed as: FORE STREET, Tiverton (South side) Gotham House including forecourt walls and gate)

GV II*

Large town house, now used as offices. Early C18, thoroughly restored 1966 by Clement Toy, architect with Raymond Erith, consultant architect. MATERIALS: Flemish bond brickwork with some blue headers; rear left return has bands of rubbed brick headers; left return is Flemish bond; rubbed brick flat arches over windows; purple slatestone footings. Slate roof. Glazed ridge tiles; cast-iron rain water goods; stacks with brick shafts; brick bands, corbelled cornice and tapering yellow pots. PLAN: double-depth plan, under an M profile roof, 2 rooms wide heated from end stacks with an open-well stair in a central stair hall and through-passage. Kitchen in half-basement with service stair at south-west end. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement. Symmetrical 5-bay front. Ground and first floor have giant brick pilasters to left and right and flanking centre bay. These have moulded caps and bases and fluted sections below a deep moulded cornice that projects out round the pilasters. Shorter pilasters above the cornice rise to the top of the parapet. Moulded brick string at first-floor level. Pilastered doorcase with round-headed outer doorway with fanlight and 2-leaf door. Ground and first-floor windows have segmental-headed arches and are glazed with 6 over 9-pane sashes with triple keystones. Second-floor windows are small 4 over 8-pane sashes with a moulded brick cornice over the central window. Basement area has iron railings. Rear elevation almost symmetrical, 3-bays with 5 windows. Bays divided by pilasters. Small blind projection at right end, perhaps a lavatory shaft. Platband below parapet; platband at ground-floor level; bands above window sills in outer bays only. Steps up to rear doorway which has segmental hood on shaped timber brackets. Pilastered segmental-headed doorcase with panelled reveals. 2-leaf half-glazed door, panelled below with glazing bars with margin panes and intersecting glazing bars in the head. Large, impressive stair window with round-headed architrave of fluted Doric pilasters, rusticated arch and apron. Window glazed with 8/12 sash with intersecting glazing bars. Segmental-headed basement windows glazed with high-transomed casements with glazing bars. ground-floor windows have rubbed brick arches and keyblocks. They are sash windows with boxed frames glazed with 6/9 sashes to left of front door and 18-pane sashes to right. Similar first-floor windows 6/9 sashes. Second floor attic windows glazed with 4/8 sashes. The left return has one ground and one first floor segmental-headed 6/9 sash. Second-floor windows are square-headed 4/8 sashes. INTERIOR: good interior detail. Fine early C18 open string stair with ramped wreathed flat-handrail and alternating barleysugar and fluted balusters, 3 balusters to each breacketed tread. Joinery includes 6-panel doors with fielded panelled reveals; 2-panel doors to service. Panelled stair dado with fluted pilasters. Massive wall cornice and plaster roundel to stair hall. One good chimneypiece seen; others believed to survive. Marble chimneypiece has Corinthian columns and frieze of sphinxes and cherubs; cast-iron grate. C19 fittings include butler's pantry and dumb waiter. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt walls are crowned with C20 cast-iron railings. Square brick gate piers have urn finials. HISTORY: the cornice on the front elevation was replaced in 1966 and the front boundary wall was coped.





Listing NGR: SS9551712446

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National Grid Reference: SS 95517 12446

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