Description

SX 99 SW
871/24/10088
23-JUN-00

MOUNT DINHAM
School House

GV
II

House, associated with former Mount Dinham School, possibly originally the master's house. c. 1862. Built for William Gibbs, architect unknown to date. Flemish bond brick with painted stone dressings; slate roof, stack with red brick shaft with brick band. Tudor style.
Plan: Sited at the NW end of the main range of the school (qv) and set forward from it, forming an overall U plan with matching building at the SW end of the range. This house is approximately rectangular on plan with a porch on the NE side.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Coped gables with kneelers. Asymmetrical 3-window front, the right hand bay broken forward and gabled to the front. Main block roofed at right angles is gabled at the left end. Projecting porch in angle between the 2 blocks has lean-to roof and quoined Tudor arched outer doorway with one-light window in left return. Ground floor windows are 3-light and transomed with quoined jambs, outer first floor windows similar but 2 lights; 2-light window above the porch. The left return has a canted bay on the ground floor with transomed window and a 3-light window above with a hoodmould.
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 buildings, who was born in Exeter. Gibbs funded the school, Free Cottages for the elderly and St Michael's Church (qv), all on an empty site on a bluff above the Exe which, according to Greenaway, had been bought by John Dinham to prevent its being used as a fairground, thus saving 'the morals of the young'. Dinham presented the land to the city and Gibbs built on it.

Listing NGR: SX9148992739

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660773

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)