Description

TIVERTON

SS91NE
848-1/2/62
12/02/52

CHEVITHORNE
Chevithorne Barton

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: SS9855915864

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531531

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Care and Repair