Description

MARY TAVY MARY TAVY
SX 57 NW
4/77
- Kent House

GV II

Mine captain's house, now house. Early C19 with some later alterations. Rubble,
slate-hung front and rear, above ground floor level, rendered below, slate roof,
cement-washed to rear, rubble and brick gable stacks.
Double depth plan with narrow service rooms to rear; to front, 2 principal rooms,
heated by gable end stacks, one right and left of central/stair hall with stair to
rear, forming lobby entrance. Extended to left by smaller heated service room with
gable end stack. Rear rooms unheated.
2 storeys and 3 windows, all 12-pane sashes with 4-pane sidelights in exposed boxes
except first floor central 12-pane sash, central panelled and glazed door with
triangular hood on wooden posts, buttress to right. Set back to left, lower 1½
storey addition built against stepped external stack with oven projection to side,4-
pane light to front and summer house attached, small brick gable stack. Rear of
addition has door, gable end of main range has half-glazed door level also slate-
hung, at first floor 4-pane sash and 12-pane sash in exposed box, 4-pane casement and
2-light 6-pane horizontal sliding sash, ground floor has single light and 2-light
casement and single light, external brick stack to right.
Interior not inspected. Kent House was named after the mine captain, Kent, cf
Kent's Tor to north west, where open-air Methodist meetings were held.

Listing NGR: SX5079878890

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26399681

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  For the Record
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)