Description

ILFRACOMBE

SS5147 BELMONT ROAD
853-1/6/15 The Gables and attached garden walls
17/05/73 and gate piers

GV II

Substantial detached villa. c1857. Built by Joseph Friendship
for Richard Bligh. Picturesque Gothic style.
MATERIALS: random rubble with painted stone quoins. Slated
multi-gable roofs with cresting; elaborately carved
bargeboards, all having slightly differently patterned
pendants, with finials and, on southern gable, 3 tall rubble
stacks with stone quoins at angles.
PLAN: asymmetrical house with main entrance on eastern facade.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic storey plus 3 single-storey
gabled projections (one C20) to south. Irregular fenestration.
Main, eastern facade of 2-window projecting gabled bay to
left, single window entrance bay and single window bay with
large gabled dormer to right. Large projecting rubble entrance
porch with steeply pitched slate roof with elaborately carved
bargeboards having trefoil pendants and finial; trefoil lights
to each return.
Pointed arch doorway with square-headed panelled and studded
door; fanlight with margin glazing and V tracery, pointed
sidelights to door. Transom and mullion casements to ground
floor with lugged surrounds; upper floors have pointed
casements with lugged surrounds apart from window above
entrance which is square-headed.
Other elevations in similar style; north elevation has ground
floor canted transom and mullion bay window with mutule
cornice and elaborate cast-iron cresting of trefoil design.
Flat-roofed staircase projection, having pointed window with
margin and Y tracery, in angle of north and west elevations.
INTERIOR retains orginal open well stair with turned balusters
and cast-iron newel. Principal rooms retain plaster cornices
and ceilings plus one fire-surround, the mantel shelf on
shafted corbels.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached random rubble garden walls, on
the west stone capped with square-headed doorway having
studded door and then sweeping inwards to form main entrance
with stone quoined gate piers having cross-gabled caps with
trefoil gable ends; timber gate of field type.
The Gables forms a group with the Church of the Holy Trinity
(qv) and the churchyard lychgate. It is a good example of this
style of house, notable for its enriched detail.

Listing NGR: SS5139947238

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503171

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)