List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CLOVELLY COURT
List Entry Number: 1165390
Location
CLOVELLY COURT
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Devon
District: Torridge
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Clovelly
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 22-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 91151
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List Entry Description
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History
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Details
CLOVELLY CLOVELLY COURT
SS 32 SW
5/79 Clovelly Court
22.1.52
- II
Large detached Country house. 1740 for Zachary Hamlyn, altered by Sir James
Hamlyn 1795; interior severely damaged by fire c1950. Panel above doorway reads:
'Antiqua Domus Conflagrata AD 1789 Aedem Hanc Anno Sequente Susceptam Extruit
JACOBUS HAMLYN Baronettus. Mainly rubble, but wing smooth rendered, slate roofs.
A classical design in simple detail with some Gothick later works; a long 3-storey
plus attic hipped block returns to a broad 3-storey unit with octagonal stair
turrets projecting from the two outer corners. The two units are linked in the
inner angle by a gatehouse or entrance tower also with half-octagonal stair
turrets. Entrance through door at base of gatehouse, under lean-to roof on
cambered opening; above this a plaque reading:
a two-light stone casement with cusped pointed light and a baroque cartouche. The
left turret has two lancets and the right two lancets and a 2-light casement. The
principal block, smooth rendered, with hipped roof has a 2+2 window principal
front with 12-pane sashes at ground and first floors, and small-pane Yorkshire
sliding sashes to the second floor. Right hand turret with 3 small lights
vertically, both turrets with hipped slated cappings. The link back to the
entrance tower is in 3 windows, 12 above 15 pane sashes. Long front facing the
walled garden (q.v.) has one bay rendered with 12-pane sash; this continues to an
unrendered section with 3-windows, 12-pane sashes at ground floor, two 2-light
casements and a small sash at eaves, then an added block to swept down roof.
Plain return gable end towards church. Return front, on entrance side, has
scattered fenestration, mainly 2-light small pane casements, but one larger, one
12-pane sash, and a large 24-pane sash. Plank door towards right. Straight joint
in masonry at half-way point corresponding with ridge stack; a second ridge stack,
and one to right hipped end, all in brick. High-set hipped dormer with sash. At
left end a projecting section of wall with swept down roof. Flight of 5 very
shallow steps in quadrant and rubble wall to either side containing stone
terrace. Interior: not inspected but understood to be much modified as result of
C20 fire damage.
Listing NGR: SS3102125156
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Map
National Grid Reference: SS 31011 25145
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