Knappe Cross
Knappe Cross, Brixington Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1416726
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Knappe Cross
- Statutory Address:
- Knappe Cross, Brixington Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1416726
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Knappe Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- Knappe Cross, Brixington 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:
- Knappe Cross, Brixington Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Exmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY0187883186
Details
1.
5176 BRIXINGTON LANE
Knappe Cross
SY 08 SW 6/160
II
2.
1908. Large house of red brick with stone dressings and clay tiled roofs in restrained Elizabethan style with Art-and-Craft influence. Two storeys and attic. Modified H-plan with gabled outer wings and three-gabled centre sections on both front and rear, and narrow intermediate bays. Asymmetrical treatment on entrance front particularly at East end. Stone mullioned and transomed wide leaded windows, many canted bays, a few trefoil heads. Tall grouped chimney stacks.
Interior has some handsome rooms with wainscoting and rich ornamental plaster to ceilings and friezes. Very good panelled doors, simple but dignified stone and granite chimney pieces, all to a high standard of craftsmanship. Small chapel on first floor has barrel vault. Arcaded screens to panelled staircase with twist balusters. Some original wardrobes, wash basins. At end a small salon in C19 French taste.
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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