Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7466 DART BRIDGE ROAD 1011-1/7/23 (South East side) 06/01/83 Croppins Park, including railings to west and south (Formerly Listed as: DART BRIDGE ROAD Croppins Park)

GV II

House, converted into flats, including railings on west and south side. Mid C19. Stuccoed and blocked out; hipped slate roof, stack with rendered shaft with corbelled cap. Plan: rectangular double-depth plan, 2 rooms wide, facing west. Interior replanned for conversion to flats. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay west front with rusticated quoins and deep eaves on paired moulded brackets. Steps up to central porch with tapering granite columns with capitals and renewed entablature and cornice. Round-headed doorway with panelled reveals, fanlight with intersecting glazing bars. 6-panel door, upper panels fielded. 3 first- and 2 ground-floor 2-light high-transomed casements, 6 panes per light, 2 panes above the transom. Probably C20 attic dormer. South return has walkway at ground-floor level built out over 3 renewed basement entrances. French windows onto walkway, 3 first-floor windows, one dormer, all glazed as those on the west front. North return has one ground floor tripartite sash to the left: 12-pane in the centre, flanked by 4-pane sashes. First-floor window left a 12-pane sash. 2 ground-floor windows and one first-floor window glazed with casements matching those on the west front. The rear (east) elevation has 2 outer projections with string courses and deep cornices. The north-east projection has a 3rd storey and peaked slate roof, this is missing from the south-east projection. The projections have round-headed Italianate windows with stuccoed architraves with keyblocks, glazed with 2-pane casements, one on the north and south sides and paired to the east side. The 3-storey projection has a timber-framed 3rd storey with deep eaves on moulded consoles and ribbon windows with triangular heads with triangular moulded panels around the head. The windows are glazed with 2-pane casements. Rear (east) elevation rather altered with fire escape. The walkways round the west and south sides of the house are railed off with ornate, probably contemporary, cast- and wrought-iron railings arranged in alternating panels with spider's web and lattice motifs with wrought-iron scrolls. INTERIOR: modern stair; C20 joinery, associated with conversion to flats.

Listing NGR: SX7438566146

External Links

• Wikidata Q26505106

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