Description

DARTINGTON SX7862-SX7962 DARTINGTON HALL 12/134 Lodge about 200 metres SE of Dartington Hall

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Lodge. Circa 1860-70, with C20 rear additions. Local grey limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and chamfered plinth, and Bathstone dressings. Steeply pitched slate roof with gabled ends with gableted apesees, moulded kneelers and slate coping. Clay ridge tiles. Plan: 2-room plan front range with central entrance passage and porch; the larger left-hand room is heated from a front lateral stack and has a small service room in a short wing behind farming an L-shaped plan. Another slightly longer wing was added to the back of the right-hand room probably in C20; later in c20 a single storey extension was built at the rear across the two wings. Victorian Gothic style. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical, front. Large gable porch to right of centre has moulded pointed arch doorway with run-out steps hoodmould and plank door; one lancet each side of porch with leaded panes, saddle bars and stanchions with floral finials. One window to right of porch in deep double-chamfered opening with C20 metal-frame casement. To left of porch a large projecting lateral stack with set-offs and a tall shaft with a cap. small single-light casement window with glazing bars to left of stack. There are no first floor windows on the front. Ground and first floor window in right-hand/north east/gable end has C20 casements in double-chamfered stone surround. The left-hand (south west) gable end and side of rear wing has C20 windows in enlarged window openings now without surrounds. Both the rear wings are gable-ended but only the original right-hand wing has coping, apex and moulded kneeles. Later C20 small single storey flat roof extension at rear across the ends of the two wings. Interior: depressed 2-centred arch doorways either side of central passage into the two front rooms. The left-hand room has chamfered centring beam with steps supported on corbels. The right-hand room has exposed chamfered joists.

Listing NGR: SX7995662500

External Links

• Wikidata Q26514361

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