Description

BRIXHAM

SX9155 HORSEPOOL STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/6/114 (West side) 10/01/75 No.22 Hill House Nursing Home including front wall and gate piers (Formerly Listed as: HORSEPOOL STREET, Higher Brixham (West side) Hill House and Hill Cottage)

GV II

Detached house, now nursing home. C16 or C17, altered C17/C18 and mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Tiled roof with crested ridge-tiles. 3 old red-brick chimneys on main range to right. Small rendered chimney on left end wall of secondary range to left. Large stone rubble chimney on rear wall of main range. Plan: Main range with rear wing to left. Shorter secondary range abutting left end wall of main range. Exterior: 2 storeys. Main range 6 windows wide. Doorway at left end of ground storey; trellised wood porch; 6-panelled door, the 2 bottom panels flush; panelled reveals. Windows have wood and iron casements. The latter are of 3 and 4 lights with leaded glazing; they occupy all the ground-storey windows, also the first second-storey window on the left and the first 2 on the right. Wood casements are of 2 lights with 4 panes per light. Deep flat eaves-cornice on paired brackets. Secondary range is 3 windows wide. Small-paned wood casements in ground and upper storeys; the 2 right-hand upper-storey windows have gables with plain bargeboards. Subsidiary features: Front garden has old stone rubble retaining wall with 2 square rendered gate piers having flat moulded caps. At right-hand end the wall turns up Mathill Road, in front of the end wall of the house; this section has a chamfered coping of stones on edge. INTERIOR: Chamfered ceiling beams; early C18 staircase with fluted columns has been truncated and a small section survives on ground floor only; 1587 fireback in sitting room; fragments of plank muntin screen. Roof has been raised, trusses of an eighteenth-century character.

Listing NGR: SX9181955306

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