Matford House
MATFORD HOUSE, WONFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390692
- Date first listed:
- 18-Sept-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Matford House
- Statutory Address:
- MATFORD HOUSE, WONFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390692
- Date first listed:
- 18-Sept-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Matford House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MATFORD HOUSE, WONFORD 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:
- MATFORD HOUSE, WONFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Exeter (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 93052 92027
Details
871/0/10175 WONFORD ROAD 18-SEP-03 Matford House
GV II House; now convent. Circa 1840; altered late C19 and late C20. Stuccoed. Slate hipped roof with deep bracketed eaves. Rendered stacks with yellow clay pots.
PLAN: Double-depth plan with central entrance on south west front, two large bays on the north west garden front and service wings to the rear north east.
Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay south west front; windows in eared moulded architraves, ground floor with cambered arches with keyblocks and 12-pane sashes, first floor sashes have C20 leaded panes; moulded stringcourse; central cambered arch doorway with canopy on large console brackets, panelled reveals and panelled and glazed door. 3:1:3 bay north west garden front with elaborate eaves cornice and stringcourse continued around two large 2-storey canted bays with similar fenestration to that at front; set back on left 2-bay service wing with replaced windows. Service wings extend to north east.
INTERIOR: Principal rooms with moulded ceiling cornices, chimneypieces and panelled doors; late C19 staircase with large Jacobethan newels, cast-iron balustrade and heavy moulded handrail; servants' stairs with stick balusters and column newel. Chapel on first floor formed late C20.
Matford House is one of a group of mid C19 stuccoed villas.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491172
- 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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