Carlyon House
CARLYON HOUSE, NORTHFIELD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385249
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Carlyon House
- Statutory Address:
- CARLYON HOUSE, NORTHFIELD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385249
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Carlyon House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARLYON HOUSE, NORTHFIELD LANE
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:
- CARLYON HOUSE, NORTHFIELD LANE
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 55480 34292
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5534SE NORTHFIELD LANE, Pilton
684-1/2/336 (West side (off))
31/12/73 Carlyon House
(Formerly Listed as:
NORTHFIELD LANE, Pilton
Pilton Chambers)
GV II
Vicarage. Said to be 1837 but apparently remodelled later
c1860. Rendered mass wall construction with slate roof and
stacks with rendered shafts. Deep rectangular plan.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3:2-bay front, the left-hand 3 bays
symmetrical, the centre bay broken forward and gabled to the
front. Deep eaves and verges on brackets. Eaves band; platband
at first-floor cill level. Recessed C20 front door between
paired Doric pilasters with an entablature with cornice. Door
has overlight with geometric glazing bars. 12-pane sashes. 2
to ground floor and 3 to first. Lower-roofed block to the
right has 12-pane sashes to first floor, ground-floor windows
replaced with modern top-hung timber casements.
INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Reed states that the vicarage was built in
1837 at the expense of the Rev William Craddock Hall. It
ceased to be a vicarage c1970.
(Reed, MA: Pilton, its Past and Present: Barnstaple: 1985-:
161).
Listing NGR: SS5548034292
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485711
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Reed, M A, Pilton, its Past and Present, (1985), 161
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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