Description

BOVEY TRACEY BRADLEY ROAD, Bovey Tracey
SX 8278

12/53 Grey Gables

- II

Formerly known as Bovey Tracey Vicarage. House, formerly vicarage. Built 1850-2.
Squared granite and, slatestone rubble with ashlar granite dressings. Slated roofs.
Granite ashlar chimneystacks with moulded weatherings and caps, asymmetrically
disposed. Bell turret, with bell, on west gable of west wing. Double-depth plan
with single-depth west wing on same axis; chapel and entrance porch attached to
north side. 2 storeys, except for 1½-storey west wing and single-storey chapel
and porch. Plain Tudor design, mostly with flat-headed windows and no drip-moulds,
although the gables have shaped copings, kneelers and finals. Chapel in very plain
medieval style. Principal front, facing south, has 3-window main range, the right-
head window set under a large gable with kneelers, coping and finial. Ground-storey
windows have Tudor-arched lights with sunk spandrels; 2 windows of 2 lights each to
left, canted bay window of 5 lights to right. In second storey 3 flat-headed
windows of 2 lights each, the right-hand one with drip-mould. Sunk square panel in
apex of gable. Original glazing replaced by single sheets of glass. West wing has
doorway in centre with chamfered jambs. To left a flat-headed e-light mullioned
window. To right a lean-to against gable of main house; in its south wall a canted
by window (possibly a later addition) with C20 glazing. In upper storey of wing
a dormer gable at right-hand end, containing 2-light mullioned window and finished
with kneelers and coping. All windows in wing, apart from the canted bay, have C20
diamond-shaped leaded panes.
Interior: open-well stone staircase with enriched cast-iron balusters. East window
of chapel has single-light pointed window with internal hood-mould carrier on
marble columns.
Built for the Hon. and Rev. Charles L Courtenay, son of the Earl of Devon and Canon
of Windsor; cost of 'the building of the Parsonage House & buildings belonging to
the said Living (of Bovey Tracey)' £1528.
Source: Church guide. Summary building account 1850-2 (Devon Record Office,
Diocesan Parsonage Rebuildings, 16).

Listing NGR: SX8223078493

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618773

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner 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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