Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 PLYMOUTH ROAD
1011-1/6/116 (North West side)
06/01/83 No.115
including garden railings and
footbridge
(Formerly Listed as:
PLYMOUTH ROAD
Nos.114 AND 115
Woodview (114))

GV II

House, including garden railings, gate and footbridge across
the town ditch. c1800, possibly with an earlier core as the
owner believes deeds in his possession date back to the C18.
Colourwashed, stuccoed and blocked out; natural slate roof,
gabled at ends; stacks with rendered shafts and one old
terra-cotta chimney pot with ornamental glazed bands.
Cast-iron gutter stamped with lions' heads.
Plan: main block single depth, 2 rooms wide; service rooms to
rear under M-plan roof. The house, is set back behind the town
mill leat running along the NW side of the Plymouth Road with
a small bridge across the ditch.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2-window front with original,
central, recessed 6-panel front door, the upper panels fielded
with a pretty overlight with geometrical glazing bars; reeded
doorcase. 2 original ground-floor 12-pane sashes with old
glass, and coloured glass in the margin panes. 2 original
first-floor 16-pane sashes with old glass. Verandah across
front supported on C20 chamfered timber posts with curving
brackets; corrugated-iron tent roof.
INTERIOR: complete with original joinery, including shutters,
doors, doorcases and chimneypieces; stick balustrade to
landing.
Subsidiary features: railings to front of house have
square-section vertical and spear finials. Unusually
attractive cast- and wrought-iron garden gate with square
section verticals with spear finials. Below the middle rail
curved wrought scrolls are interspersed with twisted ornament.
Stone and iron bridge over leat is paved with 2 large slate
slabs and flanked by plain railings.

Listing NGR: SX7384466034

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504140

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