Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8571SE WOLBOROUGH STREET 1012-1/13/152 (South side) 22/03/83 No.83 and attached walls and railings

GV II

Detached house. c1840. Rough Devon limestone ashlar with painted freestone dressings, slate roof with moulded stacks to gable ends. PLAN: double-depth plan with a 2-storey left wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Plinth; the central range is stepped slightly forward, a cornice and blocking course follow the contour. Clasping ashlar pilasters to the quoins have painted moulded capitals. Moulded painted stone architraves and bracketed sills; late C19 horned 2/2-pane sash windows to the first floor flank a central C20 casement. A wide door with a central vertical ridge flanked by 6 raised and fielded panels and a 9-pane overlight with rounded tops and bottoms is set under a good shallow prostyle Doric porch with fluted columns, triglyph and patera frieze and cornice. It is flanked by windows with cornices and late C19 plate-glass sashes without horns. INTERIOR: not inspected but known to have some decorative plasterwork. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to the front corners are walls with plain shallow pediments over flat-arched entrances to the rear. That to the left has a granite step and a wrought-iron gate, that to the right has a door with 2 vertical panels. The right return is rendered, the left return is of squared rubblestone. Very low plinths with spearhead railings attached to the plinths of the columns of the porch, enclose paved forecourts.

Listing NGR: SX8553771014

External Links

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