Description

SX 8178 BOVEY TRACEY EAST STREET (south side), Bovey Tracey 11/65 Front House Guest House - (formerly listed as Front House 23.8.55 and Cottage) GV II

Guest house, originally a private house. Early C19, probably incorporating part of a C16 or C17 building; later addition to left. Solid, roughcast walls, probably of stone. Tarred slated roofs with clay ridge-tiles; on older part of front range most ridge-tiles are handmade with low crests. Brick chimneys (the left-hand one partly rebuilt in C20) on each gable of older front range and on left-hand gable of the addition. Front range has 2 rooms of equal size, originally with through passage between them; parlour wing at rear on right-hand side, longer kitchen wing, including staircase, at rear to left. 2 storeys. Roughly symmetrical 3- window front; all windows with sashes, of 6 panes in ground storey, and 8 panes in second storey. Central doorway has wooden doorcase with flanking pilasters and flat hood on shaped brackets. 6-panel door, the 2 top panels now glazed. 2 windows at either side of doorway. Addition'to left has no windows. Rear wings retain most of their C19 casements. Interior: both front rooms and room in parlour wing on ground storey have early C19 wood chimneypieces; that in left-hand front room with moulded architrave, fluted half-pilasters, pulvinated frieze with centre plaque, and cornice. Right- hand room has chimney-piece with plain pilasters and dentilled cornice; ceiling- beams chamfered, one with a run-out stop. Wooden open-well staircase, at junction of main range with kitchen wing, has cut strings with thin square-section balusters. Roof not inspected. Little Front House and Rose Cottage, also part of Front House Guest House, are separately listed.

Listing NGR: SX8175878567

External Links

• Wikidata Q26459256

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey