Grey Gables

BOVEY TRACEY BRADLEY ROAD, Bovey Tracey SX 8278

12/53 Grey Gables

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Formerly known as Bovey Tracey Vicarage. House, formerly vicarage. Built 1850-2. Squared granite and, slatestone rubble with ashlar granite dressings. Slated roofs. Granite ashlar chimneystacks with moulded weatherings and caps, asymmetrically disposed. Bell turret, with bell, on west gable of west wing. Double-depth plan with single-depth west wing on same axis; chapel and entrance porch attached to north side. 2 storeys, except for 1½-storey west wing and single-storey chapel and porch. Plain Tudor design, mostly with flat-headed windows and no drip-moulds, although the gables have shaped copings, kneelers and finals. Chapel in very plain medieval style. Principal front, facing south, has 3-window main range, the right- head window set under a large gable with kneelers, coping and finial. Ground-storey windows have Tudor-arched lights with sunk spandrels; 2 windows of 2 lights each to left, canted bay window of 5 lights to right. In second storey 3 flat-headed windows of 2 lights each, the right-hand one with drip-mould. Sunk square panel in apex of gable. Original glazing replaced by single sheets of glass. West wing has doorway in centre with chamfered jambs. To left a flat-headed e-light mullioned window. To right a lean-to against gable of main house; in its south wall a canted by window (possibly a later addition) with C20 glazing. In upper storey of wing a dormer gable at right-hand end, containing 2-light mullioned window and finished with kneelers and coping. All windows in wing, apart from the canted bay, have C20 diamond-shaped leaded panes. Interior: open-well stone staircase with enriched cast-iron balusters. East window of chapel has single-light pointed window with internal hood-mould carrier on marble columns. Built for the Hon. and Rev. Charles L Courtenay, son of the Earl of Devon and Canon of Windsor; cost of 'the building of the Parsonage House & buildings belonging to the said Living (of Bovey Tracey)' £1528. Source: Church guide. Summary building account 1850-2 (Devon Record Office, Diocesan Parsonage Rebuildings, 16).

Listing NGR: SX8223078493