1 AND 2, THE RETREAT
1 AND 2, THE RETREAT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384966
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, THE RETREAT
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, THE RETREAT
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- Date:
- 2007-06-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/16361/12
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384966
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, THE RETREAT
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2, THE RETREAT
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:
- 1 AND 2, THE RETREAT
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 95656 12544
Details
TIVERTON
SS9512 THE RETREAT, Tiverton
848-1/6/324 (East side)
Nos.1 AND 2
GV II
House in a back court off Gold Street. Early or mid C18 with
lean-to addition on left. Red brick on a stone rubble plinth
rendered at the front and right-hand side, partly painted at
the back. Slated roof. Red brick chimneys on left side wall
and rear wall.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with semi-basement and garret; added
lean-to is single-storey. 3 window wide with blank area to
right. Doorway, in place of right-hand ground storey window,
has 4-panelled door, the 2 lower panels flush; 3-paned
fanlight. Above it a flat moulded wooden hood on shaped
brackets. Late C20 glazed wooden door in place of left-hand
ground storey window.
Flush framed sash windows in middle of ground and second
storeys, the former 8-paned, the latter 2-paned. A pair of
wooden 2-light casement windows to right of third storey, each
light of 8 panes except for the missing left light of the
left-hand window. Other windows have mid or late C20 metal
frames. Small wooden eaves cornice. Dormer window to left.
Rear wall (visible from a courtyard accessible to the public)
has to right (north) of ground storey 2 segmental-headed
windows containing original mullioned-and-transomed window
frames; 2 lights in the left-hand window contain leaded glass.
Blocked window above in second storey, which may contain
similar frame under cement. At left end of third storey a
blocked 2-light window with wooden frame.
Right-hand (south) side wall has 3-light sash window in ground
storey, the middle sashes 6-paned. 2-light wooden casement
window in garret with 6 panes per light.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: this house, along with Nos 3 & 4 (qv), is important
as one of the earliest back-court buildings to remain in
Tiverton, where this type of development was once common. The
wooden barred sashes in the front and side walls contribute
considerably to its architectural character; the
mullioned-and-transomed windows in the rear wall are a rare
survival.
Listing NGR: SS9565612544
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485425
- 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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