Description

PLYMOUTH

SX46SE LOOSELEIGH LANE, Tamerton Foliot
740-1/2/850 (North side)
01/05/75 No.33
Looseleigh House
(Formerly Listed as:
LOOSELEIGH LANE, Tamerton Foliot
Looseleigh House)

GV II

Country house. C18, remodelled 1806 [date on rainwater head]
and mid-late C19. Stucco on probable rubble; hipped slate
roofs, the front block with balustraded parapet, bellcote over
rear range; brick axial stacks. Overall near courtyard plan
with U-shaped-plan block at the front, wing extended at lower
level to rear left and parallel service range at the rear.
2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window front with quoin strips,
moulded strings and architraves. Mid-late C19 canted bays at
left and right with 2-pane horned sashes over cruciform
casements and single sash over central pilastered porch with
moulded cornice and 4-panel door. Venetian stair window at
rear of front block. Rear wings are lower and may at least in
part survive from the C18 house.
INTERIOR: good quality C18 staircase with turned balusters and
column newels; fielded-panel doors.

Listing NGR: SX4828860211

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665950

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)