Description

CREDITON

SX8399 PARK ROAD
672-1/4/133 (North side)
11/10/72 Hillbrow including garden wall to
the west

GV II

House, now in use as residential home, including garden wall
to the west. Early C19, some 1930s alterations, 1980s
addition. Brick, mostly roughcast; slate roof; stacks with
rendered shafts.
Plan: L plan, with double depth main block of 2 rooms wide
with an off-centre entrance into a passage.
Exterior. 3 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-bay south front with a
hipped slate roof with deep eaves and a moulded cornice with
shaped eaves brackets; left and right clasping pilasters;
platbands at first and second floor levels. 1930s timber
lean-to porch in the third bay from the left with herringbone
brick nogging. All windows have probably 1930s eared
shouldered architraves: 3 ground and 4 first floor horned
12-pane sashes. Small second floor windows with various C20
casements, blind recess to the right. Matching cornice and
platbands on the right return, facing the Exeter Road, where
the windows are C20 iron casements. A single storey 1980s
addition to the main block, adjoining the south front at the
west, is in a matching style with a pitched slate roof and 3
matching timber small-pane sashes with similar architraves.
Beyond this addition, the garden is enclosed by a tall,
thatched, roughcast cob wall. This includes an attractive door
with C19 decorated cast iron grille panels.
Interior: Retains some C19 features including joinery, a stick
baluster stair with a ramped handrail, some moulded cornices
and a white marble chimney-piece.

Listing NGR: SX8385799958

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491566

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)