Description

EAST BUDLEIGH HIGH STREET (west side), East
SY 0684
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8/76 Budleigh
No.1 Wynards House
11.11.52
GV II
House. Early C19, refurbished and service wing rebuilt in 1901 according to the
owners. Flemish bond brick including some burnt headers, whitewashed end walls and
rear but wing is exposed brick; brick stacks with late C19 Rolle estate chimney
pots; slate roof.
2-room plan house facing north-east onto High Street. Central staircase and each
room has a rear lateral stack. The service wing is built at right angles to rear of
the main block. It is 2 rooms with an axial stack between. Main block is 2 storeys
with attics, the service wing is 2 storeys.
Symmetrical 3-window front comprising outer C19 tripartite sashes containing central
12-pane sashes and first floor centre a narrow 12-pane sash. All have flat brick
arches over. Central doorway contains a 6-panel door, an overlight with a pattern
of curving glazing bars, and a doorcase which is fluted with beaded enrichment with
similar caps and a fluted entablature with roundels similar to the decoration on the
larger eaves cornice. Unusually deep eaves to front carried on a series of shaped
brackets. The roof is gable-ended. The right end contains a late C19 square-
cornered bay window containing a 12-pane sash window to ground floor; a horned 12-
pane sash to the first floor and a lunette to the attics. The other end is similar
and both show the unusual roof structure; it has a normal pitch to the front but a
mansard arrangment to rear. The service wing is gable-ended with a 3-window north
facing front containing casements with glazing bars under low segmental arches.
Interior shows mostly early C19 joinery detail including a stick baluster stair.
Wynards House marks the beginning of High Street. It forms part of a group of
attractive and varied buildings, most of them listed, which line the street as it
rises to the Church of All Saints (q.v.)

Listing NGR: SY0660884750

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389790

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey