Description

DARTMOUTH

673-1/0/10006 SOUTH FORD ROAD
02-JUN-04 17
Captain Jago's House

II
House. Circa 1860. Stuccoed stone rubble. Hipped roof re-clad in asbestos tiles. Two stone rubble lateral stacks at rear.
PLAN: Small 2-room plan house with stairs between the rooms and rising from central entrance lobby; the rooms heated from lateral stacks at the back; the portico at the front was probably re-used from an earlier building. C20 single-storey wing projecting from front left.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 3-bay east front; French casements on ground floor, that on right with margin panes of stained glass, that on left replaced; first floor 12-pane sash on right and casement on left; large central Doric portico with fluted columns and entablature with triglyphs, round-headed doorway in moulded architrave with semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars and 2-panel door and storey above with 12-pane sash and gable. Rear [west] elevation has two lateral stacks with large attic dormer between.
INTERIOR: Straight staircase between two rooms rising from entrance lobby with arch on consoles; right hand room has moulded plaster anthemion ceiling cornice and re-used early C19 chimneypiece; panelled doors.
An example of a small mid C19 town house with a fine earlier C19 Doric portico.

NGR:SX8762651278

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26670256

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990