Description

CREDITON

SS834000 UNION TERRACE
672-1/6/174 No.4
19/03/51

GV II*

House. Circa 1760, with some circa 1860s additions. Flemish
bond brick; slate roof; end stacks with brick shafts.
Plan: L-plan. Service access via a cartway to the left. Main
block single depth, 2 rooms wide with a central entrance. Rear
left service wing.
Exterior: 3 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with deep eaves
and a moulded eaves cornice above a frieze of mutules and
rosettes. Platbands at first and second floor level. Steps up
to a central round-headed doorway with a 6-panel front door,
the lower panels flush. C18 doorcase with composite columns
and an entablature with a frieze of mutules and patterae below
the cornice. Panelled reveals; fanlight with patterned glazing
bars. All windows original with guaged brick flat arches and
some old glass. The door is flanked by tripartite sashes: 12
panes in the centre, 4 panes in the outer lights. Outer first
floor windows similar; 12-pane sash in the centre. The second
floor windows each have have their upper tier of panes fixed
and function as sashes only below the upper tier. They are
also tripartite: 3/6 in the centre, 1/2 in the outer lights;
centre window 3/6-panes. The rear elevation of the main block
has a very tall round-headed stair window, cut across by the
stair. On the left return, with access from the cartway to the
left, a panelled service door to the axial service passage.
Interior: Numerous C18 features include marble and timber
chimney-pieces, including marble chimney-pieces to all the
principal rooms and timber chimneypieces elswhere; plaster
cornices; joinery including skirtings, panelled doors
including 2-panel doors, shutters and panelled reveals to the
windows. Especially interesting is the series of C18 cupboards
in the service passage, a rare survival. Fine circa mid C18
open-well stick baluster stair with a mahogany handrail and
newels. Circa 1860s encaustic tiling to the passageway.
This is a fine C18 house, very intact both externally and
internally and one of a row of good Georgian houses on Union
Terrace.

Listing NGR: SS8331000255

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548402

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)