Peel House
PEEL HOUSE, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106720
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Peel House
- Statutory Address:
- PEEL HOUSE, NEW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106720
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Peel House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PEEL HOUSE, NEW STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PEEL HOUSE, NEW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chulmleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 68606 14170
Details
CHULMLEIGH NEW STREET (north side), SS 6814 - 6914 Chulmleigh 7/88 Peel House GV II Former police station, now private dwelling. Late C19. Painted rendered stone rubble. Slate roofs with gabled ends. Rendered stack at left gable end and axial and gable end rendered stacks to rear wing. Plan: asymmetrical L-shaped plan with passage to right side running from front doorway through to former cells at rear, with 3 rooms in line to left of passage the front room wider than the 2 rear rooms which are separated by the staircase. The two principal rooms to the front have been converted to single large room in C20, and the room between the staircase and former cells from a scullery to kitchen. The two former cells have been altered into a single room extending the width of the rear wing. Exterior: 2 storeys. Large gabled half dormer to front with twin 4 paned sashes above canted bay window with hipped slate roof and original diamond glazing pattern to left of segmental pointed arched doorway with ashlar quoins, chamfered surround with pyramid stops and original studded plank door. 2 half dormers to left side of rear wing. The 2 right-hand windows retain original diamond glazing pattern. 2 blocked windows formerly lighing the cells to the rear gable end retain their wrought iron grilles.
Listing NGR: SS6860414169
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97266
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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