Description

ASHBURTON

SX7569 EAST STREET
849-1/10/56 (South side)
10/05/73 Nos.48 AND 48A
Greylands including gate piers on
street frontage
(Formerly Listed as:
EAST STREET
(South side)
Nos.48-54 (Even)
Greylands (48))

GV II

Also known as: Nos.48 AND 48A Sands School EAST STREET.
House, now school. Late C18 or early C19, left side and rear
remodelled in mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slated
roof. 2 chimneys with bracketed caps on front range.
Double-depth, apparently of 2 different builds. Entrance on
left side from open driveway. No 48A (to right) appears to
have been a separate house originally. No 48 is 3-storeyed
with 2-window front, the windows set well over to the right.
Sash windows in concealed frames: 8 over 8 panes in ground
storey, 6 over 6 panes in second storey, 3 over 6 panes in
third storey. Shallow bracketed eaves-cornice. No 48A is
2-storeyed with irregular 3-window front. Plank door,
off-centre to right. 2 small wood casements in ground storey
and 1 to left of upper storey. To right of upper storey 2 sash
windows, each sash 2-paned. Front finished with raised band
and parapet. To left of No 48 is a pair of rendered panelled
gate piers with stone ball-finials. To right of them, in a
short stretch of wall, is a 4-panelled door, the 2 lower
panels flush. Side wall of No 48 to left has glazed door with
margin-panes containing coloured glass; panelled reveals,
cornice on consoles. Windows in upper storey round-headed with
enriched archivolts; 3 have 2-paned sashes, 1 a 2-light wood
casement with 2 panes per light. Rear elevation, fronting
garden, has upper storey windows with enriched bracketed sills
and, in the second storey, enriched cornices on consoles. Deep
bracketed eaves-cornice. 2 storeyed rear of No 48A projects
slightly. 8-paned sash window in ground storey. French window
with margin-panes and patterned tramsom-light in upper storey;
enriched cornice on consoles. In front of it a balcony with
remains of mid C19 patterned iron railing. Deep bracketed
eaves-cornice. Interior: not inspected, but entrance hall seen
to have mid C19 plasterwork, including an enriched domed
ceiling. Geometrical stair with thin square balusters, the
balustrade voluted at the foot; skylight.

Listing NGR: SX7577569967

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26482543

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Recommended Books

• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  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)