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Hele House

A Grade II Listed Building in Ashburton, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.5189 / 50°31'7"N

Longitude: -3.7747 / 3°46'29"W

OS Eastings: 274279

OS Northings: 70292

OS Grid: SX742702

Mapcode National: GBR QG.VN0V

Mapcode Global: FRA 27ZP.H6Z

Plus Code: 9C2RG69G+H4

Entry Name: Hele House

Listing Date: 10 May 1973

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1200964

English Heritage Legacy ID: 375987

ID on this website: 101200964

Location: Holne Turn, Teignbridge, Devon, TQ13

County: Devon

District: Teignbridge

Civil Parish: Ashburton

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Ashburton St Andrew

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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Description


ASHBURTON

SX7470 HELE 849-1/5/240 Hele House 10/05/73

GV II

Formerly known as: Lower Hele. Large house, now sub-divided. Late C18, considerably extended mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Slated roof, hipped to left. Rendered chimneys. Double-fronted, double-depth house with centre entrance hall and staircase wing at either side, that to left believed to be late C18. Two storeys with garret. 6 windows wide. Main body of house has centre doorway with moulded frame and cornice. 2-storeyed bow window to right with 6 and 4-paned sashes. Square bay window to left of ground storey; 6 and 4-paned sashes, Grecian incised decoration, bracketed cornice. 2 6-paned sash windows in upper storey. Bracketed eaves-cornice. Wing to left has 6-paned sashes. Interior: main body of house has wooden staircase with thin square balusters and shaped step-ends. 1973 list refers to arched stair window with interlaced bars at head. The 2 front rooms have good marble chimneypieces. Door with incised Greek decoration in left wing. Interior only partly inspected. House was known as Lower Hele until at least mid C19. In 1846 a newspaper advertisement referred to it as "erected a few years since" but left unfinished. (The Times: 1.6.1846: P12).

Listing NGR: SX7427970292

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