Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366SE CHAPEL STREET
1011-1/6/48 (North side)
No.18
Park View, including front railings
and gate piers

GV II

House including front railings. c1860. Built for members of
the Hamlyn family, millowners in Buckfastleigh. Local grey
limestone rubble, front elevation stuccoed and blocked out,
left return slate-hung; slate roof, gabled at ends, glazed
ridge tiles; end stacks with rendered shafts with platbands.
Plan: double-depth plan with 3 rooms, 2 to the rear and one to
the left, opening off a large entrance hall. To the right of
the hall the stair leads down to basement service rooms and up
to first floor; servants' rooms in attic. Overlooks the former
Hamlyn wool mill.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys at the front, 3 to rear. Symmetrical 3-bay
front. Central recessed 6-panel front door, upper panels
glazed, C20 copy of a C19 door, reusing original door
furniture. 2 ground-floor 9 over 6-pane hornless sashes, 3
first-floor small 12-pane sashes.
INTERIOR: grander than the exterior and very well-preserved.
Panelled doorcases with masons' mitres and original doors open
off entrance hall. Segmental-headed archway to stick baluster
stair with mahogany handrail to first-floor rooms and basement
kitchen. Principal rooms retain original chimney-pieces, one
white Italian marble with probably Minton tiles to the hearth,
one Ashburton marble chimney-piece. Unusually fine plaster
cornices. Original gas light fittings, found in attic, have
been converted to electricity.
Historical note: timber porch with reeded columns missing but
present owner has photograph showing it in situ. The Hamlyn
family dominated Buckfastleigh in the late C19 and early C20
and were responsible for a number of buildings in the town.
Subsidiary features: narrow front area railed off with
original cast-iron railings with spear finials. Tall walls
flank paired gates to former coach yard on left.

Listing NGR: SX7368166129

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580462

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