Description

BRIXHAM

SX9256SE RANSCOMBE ROAD, Lower Brixham
1946-1/11/211 (North East side)
10/01/75 Ranscombe House Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
RANSCOMBE ROAD
(North East side)
Nos.39-49
Ranscombe House)

GV II

Detached house, now hotel. Early/mid C19, with mid C19
additions. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slated roof. Main
block of double-depth plan, 2 rooms-wide with passage behind
front rooms separating them from service quarters; entrance
and stair-hall to rear right. Short one-room wing at each
side, probably added later.
2 storeys, the main block set on a high basement; inserted
garret. Symmetrical 3-window front with 1-window wings. Ground
storey of main block has round-arched, semicircular niche in
centre. French windows with transom-lights at either side.
Each leaf has 6 long panes with splayed corners;
diamond-shaped panes at the intersections. 4-pane
transom-lights in same style. Upper-storey windows have
matching 2-light wood casements, except that the panes are
square with splayed corners. Outer windows have 6 panes per
light and 4-paned transom-lights. Central window (possibly
altered) has 12-paned French windows. In front of both storeys
a mid C19 two-tiered cast-iron balcony with ornate railings
and moulded posts having traceried brackets at the top. Raised
band between storeys. Deep, flat eaves-cornice, continued
round the side and rear walls. 2 flat-topped mid/late C20
dormers.
Right wing is single-storeyed with curved parapet sweeping up
to the main block. Pointed-arched window with 2-light wood
casement having 2 panes per light; intersecting Gothic tracery
in the head. Mid C19 entrance on right side with flanking
pilasters and moulded cornice on consoles; gable with pierced
bargeboards. To right of it a late C20 small-paned wood
casement window. Left wing is 2-storeyed with lean-to roof.
Pointed-arched windows in each storey with small-paned sash
windows; that in ground storey has 3 over 3 panes with
intersecting Gothic tracery in the head of the upper sash;
that in upper storey has 2 over 2 panes with glazing bars
forming 2 pointed arches in the head of the upper sash.
INTERIOR: main ground-floor rooms inspected. The 2 front rooms
(now combined) have moulded cornices and panelled shutters,
the panels carrying a raised moulding. Moulded cornices in
rear passage and right-hand wing room, the latter with plainer
panelled shutters. Geometric wood stair with narrow well; cut
strings, moulded nosings to treads, thin square balusters,
handrail voluted at the bottom. Entrance lobby has moulded
cornice; half-glazed inner door with coloured leaded glass.
Beyond it,a segmental arch on consoles.

Listing NGR: SX9296456226

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512990

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability