List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHEVITHORNE BARTON
List entry Number: 1384703
Location
CHEVITHORNE BARTON
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Devon | Mid Devon | District Authority | Tiverton |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 12-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 485157
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Details
TIVERTON
SS91NE CHEVITHORNE
848-1/2/62 Chevithorne Barton
12/02/52
II*
Manor house. Early C17, seat of the Frauncis (until 1664) and
Prideaux (until C19) families; rear service wing, rebuilt in
C19, remodelled in 1930 by Sir Albert Richardson for the
Heathcote-Amorys.
MATERIALS: render on rubble except for the freestone door and
window dressings and copings; steep dry slate gabled roofs
with 4 front gables which increase in size from the left;
gable copings with moulded kneelers; rendered brick stacks: 2
rear lateral stacks with paired shafts (centre and left, 2
single stacks (towards left and towards right), the right-hand
stack unrendered, and larger end stack on the right.
PLAN: overall large E-shaped plan including service wings at
rear, the latter remodelled 1930 to provide a large L-plan
living room. Front range is large 3-room plan with cross
passage towards left, central hall and slightly-projecting
parlour wing on the right.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with 2nd-floor rooms partly in roof space;
1:1:2:1-bay range with wider parlour front projecting on the
right. Square hoodmoulds over original 2, 3 and 4-light
mullioned windows. 1-window-range entrance bay has wide
round-arched moulded doorway with hoodmould.
INTERIOR: Pevsner notes C17 features including four-centred
first-floor doorway, open-well stair with ball finials to
heavy newels, and the Oak Room in east wing with fluted
pilasters to Jacobean panelling and fine plasterwork to
frieze, single-rib ceiling and especially the overmantle with
Orpheus and the figures of Hope and Wisdom.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: 1989-: 258).
Listing NGR: SS9861415847
Selected Sources
- Article Reference - Author: Nikolaus Pevsner and Bridget Cherry - Title: Devon - Date: 1989 - Journal Title: The Buildings of England - Page References: 258
National Grid Reference: SS 98614 15847
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