Gorwell House
GORWELL HOUSE, GOODLEIGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385129
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Gorwell House
- Statutory Address:
- GORWELL HOUSE, GOODLEIGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385129
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Gorwell House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GORWELL HOUSE, GOODLEIGH ROAD
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:
- GORWELL HOUSE, GOODLEIGH ROAD
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 57272 33491
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5733 GOODLEIGH ROAD
684-1/3/112 (North side (off))
31/12/73 Gorwell House
II
House. c1825. For the owner of the Derby Lace Works. Stuccoed
mass wall construction; natural slate roof concealed behind
parapet; stacks with rendered shaft. Overall L-plan. Main
block 2 rooms wide and one room deep with a central entrance
passage containing the stair; rear left service wing, partly
in separate ownership.
2 storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay front. Parapet above
deeply-moulded cornice. Windows with floating cornices on
small brackets. Steps up to 7-bay Bathstone Ionic loggia with
entablature with moulded cornice and paired columns at either
end and to the central doorway, returning for 4 bays at either
end. Doorcase with paired pilasters; 2-leaf front door with
glazing bars and margin panes. 4 ground-floor French windows
with glazing bars and margin panes with external sliding
louvred shutters. First-floor windows 2-pane sashes with
margin panes and housing for missing shutters. The left return
retains some probably original 12-pane sash windows.
INTERIOR: very intact; includes joinery and turned baluster
staircase and good plaster friezes and cornices; original
chimneypieces. First floor said to have Gothic plaster
vaulting.
Listing NGR: SS5727233491
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485591
- 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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