Description

SX 9192 NE MOUNT DINHAM
871/2/10089 Dinham House
23-JUN-00

GV II

House, associated with the Mount Dinham complex, perhaps the incumbent's house for the Church of St Michael. c.1862, built for William Gibbs, architect unknown to date. Flemish bond brick with painted stone dressings; slate roof, stack with red brick chimneyshaft with brick band. Tudor style.
Plan: Sited next to the church and at the SE end of the main range of the school (qv) and set forward from it, forming an overall U-plan with matching building at the NE end of the range. This house is approximately rectangular on plan with a porch on the SW side.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Coped gables with kneelers. Asymmetrical 3-window front, the left hand bay slightly broken forward and gabled to the front. Main block at right angles is gabled at the right end. projecting gabled porch in middle bay with a chamfered arched doorway with quoined jambs and a plank door with strap hinges and one-light windows in the returns. Other windows are 2 and 3-light with quoined jambs, chamfered architraves and transoms. The right gable end, effectively the show front, has a canted ground floor bay window with a hipped slate roof and ovolo-moulded frames and transom. 2-light first floor window in similar style with a square-headed hoodmould; small one-light window in gable.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.
This is part of an outstanding Victorian group, planned and funded by William Gibbs of Tyntesfield, a wealthy merchant, philanthropist and patron of building, born in Exeter, who accommodated on the site a collection of Free Cottages for the elderly, a school and an ambitious church which contains his effigy in marble. According to Greenaway this was a virgin site which had been purchased by John Dinham to prevent its use as a fairground and thus save 'the morals of the young'. Dinham presented the land to the city and Gibbs built on it.
(J. Greenaway, Discovering Exeter: St Davids, Exeter, 1981, p.22).

Listing NGR: SX9154692702

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660775

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