Description

1. MILL STREET
1481 -----------
Raleigh House
SY 09 NE 1/19 28.4.52.
II GV

2.
C18 with alterations, 2 storey and attic, red brick, slate roof. Stucco 1st
floor band. Parapet. 3,1st floor sash windows with glazing bars, 2 on ground
floor with half-round heads under slightly projecting brick arches with reeded
imposts. Moulded arched architrave, to door, with rusticated voussoirs and
jambs in stone, painted. Radial bar fanlight, and glazed margin all round allowing
space for reeded door frame with narrow pilasters. 6-panel door with sunk
upper panels and panelled reveals. Sculptured head keystone. Ornamental cast
iron front railings. Wing, east, 2 storey, roughcast, 2 casements at 1st floor,
one with glazing bars remaining. Slate roof. Raleigh House occupies part
of the site of a house in which Sir Walter lived. It was in decay at end of
C18, remainder burnt down in the 1805 fire. Edward Davy born at Raleigh House
in 1806. In 1840 his machines for "Telegraphic Communication" were brought
to Ottery and stored at the house for years. NMR.

All the listed buildings in Mill Street form a group.

Listing NGR: SY0955395403

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26508139

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)