Pill House is a Grade II* listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Pill House
- WRENN ID
- blind-rafter-larch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1951
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BARNSTAPLE
SS53SE PILL LANE, Rumsam 684-1/1/394 (South side) 19/01/51 Pill House
II*
Large house, divided into flats. c1700, perhaps with an earlier core. Plastered stone rubble; slate roof with lead rolls, hipped at ends; stacks with old brick shafts. Main range has asymmetrically-placed entrance suggesting possible earlier core, rear right wing may have been service wing containing kitchen. 2 storeys and attic. Deep eaves with eaves board; platband at first floor level. Slightly asymmetrical but regular 7-window front with main entrance to left of centre with pilastered doorcase with fluted pilasters and 6-panel door with fielded panels. Semicircular porch hood on carved, scrolled brackets. 12-pane sash windows without horns to the front, except the 2 ground-floor windows to right of the entrance which are 6 over 9 panes. 4 probably c1700 attic windows with pedimented gables and slate-hung sides; glazed with 2-light casements, 8 panes per light. The right return has a slate-roofed single-storey lean-to across the front. INTERIOR: partially inspected. Main range has stick baluster stair of c1830 and the stair hall retains some moulded plaster cornice. Features of interest may survive elsewhere.
Listing NGR: SS5629331617
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