Description

CREDITON

SS834000 BLAGDON
672-1/6/8 (North side)
19/03/51 Blagdon House including service
block and garden walls

GV II

Small farmhouse, now house, including service block to the
rear and tall walls to the gardens and rear yard. c.1800 with
some alterations of the 1950s (information from the owner).
Flemish bond brick, the front elevation rendered;gabled slate
roof;end stacks with brick shafts. Service block roughcast,
slate roof, garden walls roughcast cob on stone rubble
footings with slate coping.
Plan: double- depth, 2 rooms wide,with a central entrance.
Exterior: 2 storeys with attic and cellar. Symmetrical 3-bay
front with cornice with moulded brackets. Central Tuscan
timber doorcase with an open pediment; steps up to a 6-panel
front door with panelled reveals and a pretty fanlight with a
central roundel with a flower motif. 2 ground and 3 first
floor original windows: all 16-pane sashes except first floor
centre, which is 12-pane. Rendered curtain walls about 3m high
with slate coping adjoin the front elevation to left and
right: each wall contains a round headed niche for garden
seats, that to left broken through by a doorway to the rear of
the house and the rear niche projections with conical slate
roofs. Tall garden walls enclose the front garden completely,
except on the boundary with Exhibition Road. The rear
elevation has a round-headed stair window in the centre with
glazing bars and margin panes. Two first-floor rear C19
16-pane sashes, the ground floor windows are mostly C20 timber
casements with high transoms. The rear service yard is
enclosed by tall walls.
Interior: Not inspected. Said to have been rather altered in
the 1950s but contains original joinery including shutters.
Rear service block, 2 storeys, has a gable-ended roof parallel
to the house and a stack at the left (west) end. Doorway to
the right; one pointed arched ground floor window with leaded
panes and Y tracery to the left; pigeon holes under the eaves.
A lofted building with a monopitch roof, used formerly as a
milk collection point, adjoins the service block at the left
(west) end. Interior: Has a plain mid/late C19 fireplace with
a bread oven; loft floor removed. The building could have
provided additional cooking facilities or may have been used
as accommodation for a farm labourer.
Blagdon is an ancient site. The present building is a good
example of a c.1800 gentleman's farmhouse.

Listing NGR: SS8389700385

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503296

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version