The Old House, Buckfastleigh, Devon

Entry Name: The Old House

Listing Date: 6 January 1983

Last Amended: 30 December 1993

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1292127

English Heritage Legacy ID: 392313

ID on this website: 101292127

Location: Buckfastleigh, Teignbridge, Devon, TQ11

County: Devon

District: Teignbridge

Civil Parish: Buckfastleigh

Built-Up Area: Buckfastleigh

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Buckfastleigh

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7466 STATION ROAD
1011-1/7/130 (North side)
06/01/83 No.13
The Old House
(Formerly Listed as:
STATION ROAD
No.13)

GV II

House. c1820s with 1870s alterations and rear kitchen
addition. Mass wall construction, stuccoed and blocked out;
slate roof half-hipped at left end, gabled at right end; end
stacks, cast-iron gutters.
Plan: single-depth main range, 2 rooms wide with a central
entrance into a passage with a stair. Rear kitchen wing,
heated from a right lateral stack and associated with a rear
court.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front with
rusticated quoins. Deep eaves on paired moulded brackets,
fluted eaves frieze with palmettes. Round-headed doorway to
left of centre with pilastered doorcase with moulded pilasters
with capitals, an open pediment, fluted frieze and panelled
reveals, upper panels fielded. 2-leaf panelled door, upper
panels fielded; plain fanlight. Secondary doorway to former
registry office (installed in late C19) at right hand of front
with c1870s 2-leaf half-glazed door with flush panels.
Pilastered doorcase, the pilasters reeded to either side of a
deep overlight with cornice over. 2 ground-floor 16-pane C19
sashes; 4 similar first-floor windows. Left return (facing
courtyard) has renewed small-pane timber sash windows, rear
wing also has small-pane timber sashes.
INTERIOR: 2-leaf half-glazed c1870s inner door with glazed
side lights, deep overlight and 1870s floor tiling. C19
features include 1870s mahogany staircase with bobbin-turned
balusters. C19 joinery includes panelled doors. Large
fireplace in kitchen with iron lintel.
Subsidiary features: tall grey limestone rubble walls to
garden.
Historical note: in 1879 the house, known as Bridge Cottage,
was lived in by John Bovey, registrar of births and deaths,
ale and stout agent, vaccination officer and sanitary
inspector and insurance agent. Presumably the later C19
alterations were carried out for him.
(White's Directory: Devon: London: 1879-).

Listing NGR: SX7413466142

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