Designation:
All on Devon Local List
Type:
- Communal gardens
Period/Century:
- C19
Post Code:
EX1 1RF
Parish:
Exeter
Local Authority:
Exeter
OS Grid Ref:
SX 932 925
Description:
Barnfield Crescent is a Georgian crescent garden. Barnfield Crescent was, like Southernhay West and Dix’s Field, a development by Matthew Nosworthy. It was planned in 1792 but in 1805 only five houses, Nos 2-6, were built. No 1 was added in a similar style in c.1840 by Dr Thomas Shapter, but it is of three storeys, not four like the rest of the crescent. Sadly, the Georgian crescent was never completed, and Morwenstow, a large early C20 house looks rather incongruous.
Listed Buildings
Nos 1 and 1a Barnfield Crescent listed Grade II; Nos 2 to 6 Barnfield Crescent listed Grade II*.
References
Cherry & Pevsner: The Buildings of England – Devon, 1989: 431
