Pilton Abbey
PILTON ABBEY, BULL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385081
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Pilton Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- PILTON ABBEY, BULL HILL
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- Date:
- 2004-07-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/12629/22
- Rights:
- © Dr Barbara Hilton. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385081
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Pilton Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- PILTON ABBEY, BULL 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:
- PILTON ABBEY, BULL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55606 34079
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5534SE BULL HILL, Pilton
684-1/2/321 (South side)
31/12/73 Pilton Abbey
GV II
House. c1840s, probably with an earlier core. Mass wall
construction, rendered; one stone rubble elevation to service
end; gabled, coped slate roofs (one hipped roof to service
wing, which might be earlier); stacks with rendered shafts,
some multiple, with projecting cornices and some old pots;
cast-iron rainwater goods. Large, deep, approximately
rectangular plan with entrance on the east side and service
wings to NW.
3 storeys. Deep eaves with projecting rafter ends. Timber
mullioned windows with moulded mullions and high transoms,
glazed with small-pane casements. Asymmetrical 3-window E
front. Left-hand of elevation occupied by shallow projecting
stack with set-offs and triple shafts. Projecting porch
alongside to right with coped gable with corbelled kneelers
and chamfered Tudor arched outer doorway; Tudor-style front
door with planted mouldings. 2 ground and 3 first-floor
windows, the ground-floor windows with hoodmoulds. One gabled
attic dormer in narrow gable, also coped with kneelers, with
one-light crank-headed window. Service block to right is gable
end to the E with a single first-floor 2-light window to match
the others and a gable end stack.
Garden (S) elevation in the same style is gabled to the front
to left and right with a small gable to the narrow recessed
bay in the centre. Shallow ground-floor bays to left and right
with hipped roofs, glazed with 3-light windows. 2-storey
canted bay in centre with half-glazed garden door and bay
window to first floor. Second-floor window above bay is a
one-light crank-headed window. Outer bays have 3-light
first-floor windows and 2-light attic windows in the gables.
Other elevations preserve early C19 windows including at least
one 16-pane sash which may be C18.
INTERIOR: not seen on survey but known to contain early C19
chimneypieces and joinery.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the building was never part of a monastic
site. It was known as Lee's tenement in the C17 and C18. It
was a large house by 1780, and was named Pilton Abbey by 1866.
(Reed MA: Pilton, its Past and Present: Barnstaple: 1985-:
159-60).
Listing NGR: SS5562234099
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485542
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Reed, M A, Pilton, its Past and Present, (1985), 159-160
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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