Description

ASHWATER ASHWATER
SX 39 NE
3/16 Holmdene
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GV II
House. Circa early to mid C18. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings,
thatched roof gabled at ends, large projecting cob stack with set-offs and brick
shaft and left end, projecting stone stack at right end. Single depth 2-room plan
with off centre entrance directly into the right-hand room with the staircase
opposite the entrance running axially against the rear wall. The right-hand room may
originally have been unheated and the right-hand stack may be a C19 addition. 2
storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front with an off-centre front door under a gabled
brick porch. The thatch eaves are eyebrowed over 3 first floor 2-light casements, 6
panes per light. 2 windows to the left of the porch are similar, ground floor window
right has 18 panes. All windows have slate sills.
Interior Both fireplaces are partly blocked with probably C19 timber jambs and
lintels. Roofspace not inspected but may be of interest.

Listing NGR: SX3861395257

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26544669

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)