Description

BRIXHAM

SX9256SW STATION HILL, Lower Brixham
1946-1/10/213 (North West side)
10/01/75 Furzeham Court House including
garden walls and gate
(Formerly Listed as:
STATION HILL
Furzeham Court Hotel)

GV II

Detached house, standing on the hillside above All Saints
Church (qv). 1832, with additions to left and at rear. Solid
rendered walls. Slated roof. Rendered chimney on each end
wall.
2 rooms flanking centre entrance and stairhall. Added room to
left (straight joint visible inside). Long rear wing, possibly
original, to right. Shorter rear wing, probably C19, to left
of original range. 2 storeys. 4 windows wide, the left-hand
window set in the addition. Round-arched doorway in centre of
original front; recessed surround; late C20 glazed door with
original reeded transom below a plain semicircular fanlight. A
second round-arched doorway at left-hand end of front. Windows
have late C20 small-paned wood casements. Deep flat
eaves-cornice, panelled on the soffit and with paired
brackets. Abutting the right-hand end of the frontage is a
side-passage doorway in red and cream brick with a pointed
arch; planked door.
INTERIOR inspected on ground-floor only. Wooden dogleg
staircase with closed strings, thin square balusters and
column-newels. Both adjacent rooms have panelled shutters.
Left-hand room has white marble chimneypiece, probably mid
C19, with enriched brackets of coloured marble. Behind the
right-hand shutter in this room is written in pencil the name
John Sprague Green and the date 1858.
Subsidiary features: narrow terrace to front of house with
tall stone rubble retaining wall. At its foot is a garden
enclosed by stone rubble walls on the other 3 sides. To the
right of the garden is a flight of steps leading up to the
house, with spear-head uprights to C19 iron gate with twisted
shaft.

Listing NGR: SX9233456195

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513048

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)