Description

KENN
SX 98 SW

5/148 Woodlands

- II

House, used as nursing home. Remodelled in 1836 by Anthony Salvin for William Ley,
cost £3,100 (information from Dr Jill Allibone). Stone rubble with red sandstone
dressings, rear elevation partly shingle-hung in the late C20. Asbestos slate roof,
gabled at ends and gabled to the front at the right, behind parapets ; projecting
left end stack with low stone shaft, axial stack with similar shaft to right of
centre ; projecting right end stack with set-offs,
Plan: Approximately T plan : the main block rectangular with a central entrance into
a heated stair hall with a short projection to the front at the right end. Salvin is
said to have added the hall, dining room and drawing room on the north side, adding
the oak staircase and 2 bedrooms.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 7 bay north front with regular fenestration, a
central 2 storey porch and the 2 right-hand bays projecting to the front with a 2
storey canted bay window. Red sandstone cornice below parapet, plinth and jambs and
lintels to the windows. The parapet rises in the centre of the porch with decayed
armorial bearings of the ley family. Front door with hollow-chamfered Tudor arched
doorframe; pilasters to left and right of the porch rising to a red sandstone
platband at first floor level. Fenestration of plate glass 2-pane sashes, the
ground floor windows transomed. The right return has 2 C20 French windows on the
ground floor and first floor sashes.
Interior: Not thoroughly inspected. C19 Tudor stair in stair hall.
Salvin built Mamhead House in Mamhead parish, a few miles to the north east, in 1828-
33 for Sir Ralph Newman, bart. (qv Dawlish College). '

Listing NGR: SX9221985435

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26461872

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