Description

SX 68 NE CHAGFORD MILL STREET, (south side),
Chagford
3/145 Belmont, including front area
- railings

GV II

House, now offices. Early C19 plastered granite stone rubble; granite stacks with
brick chimney shafts; slate roof.
Plan: 2-room plan house with central entrance hall and staircase. It is built along
the street facing north-east. Each room has a rear lateral stack and there is an
open through passage to a rear courtyard at the right (north-western) end. 2
storeys.
Exterior: the stucco front is lightly incised as ashlar. At the right end is an
elliptical-headed arch to the passage. Otherwise a symmetrical 3-window front above
a central doorway which contains a 4-panel door, overlight with margin panes,
panelled reveals and a prominent doorcase of flat pilasters with moulded bases and
caps and a moulded entablature. Doorway is flanked by 16-pane sashes on each floor
and first floor central 12-pane sash. Roof is parallel with the street running
between the adjoining properties.
Interior contains a good deal of original joinery and other detail including an open
string stick baluster stair.
A narrow strip of ground across the front is fenced by cast iron spear-headed
railings set into granite coping.

Listing NGR: SX6999187553

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