Description

PAIGNTON

SX8861 LOWER POLSHAM ROAD 1947-1/4/47 (North side) 10/01/75 No.4 and attached walls and piers to front garden

GV II

House including garden walls and piers to front garden. c1850. MATERIALS: Stuccoed and blocked out; natural slate roof, gabled at ends; end stacks with rendered shafts with platbands. PLAN: Double-depth with central staircase, 2-rooms-wide. EXTERIOR: Slightly set back and sited above the road. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-bay front. Deep boxed eaves. Pretty late C19/early C20 enclosed vernadah across front with a lean-to glazed roof and dentil frieze below a bracketed cornice. Half-glazed outer door in centre with margin panes and stained glass. 5 bays of verandah to right of door with similar glazing with margin panes and stained glass. To the left of the door one bay of the verandah has been absorbed into the house. The bay alongside is glazed with paired 2-pane sashes. The left-hand bay is open with a segmental head. Inside the verandah central half-glazed late C19/early C20 front door with stained glass. High-transomed French window to right. On the first floor of the front elevation of the house, a round-headed blind recess with a moulded arch and keyblock, flanked by C19 twelve-pane sashes. Probably original gabled attic dormer in centre with a 2-light timber casement, 6 panes per light. Local red breccia rubble garden walls with square section piers with pyramidal caps to front garden. INTERIOR: Late C19 tiling to verandah floor. Interior otherwise not inspected but said to be very intact with original chimney-pieces throughout; stick baluster stair and original joinery.

Listing NGR: SX8886761257

External Links

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House