Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8571SE WOLBOROUGH STREET 1012-1/13/155 (North side) No.92 West End Cottage and attached wall to the west

GV II

House at a right-angle to the street and formerly connected to No.90 at the rear (not included). 1840-1850. MATERIALS: incised stucco, hipped slate roof with 2 rear axial stacks. PLAN: double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Modillion eaves cornice, first-floor platband and plinth to front and right return, 6/6-pane sash windows with some crown glass, c1860 verandah to the garden front (SW) with swept glass roof and fretted frieze on slender cast-iron columns. 4-panel half-glazed central door and overlight. INTERIOR: moulded architraves to 4-panel doors; open string dogleg staircase with fretted ends, stick balusters, wreathed mahogany handrail and curtail step; small semicircular landing arch to rear; first-floor front rooms have fireplaces with roundels to block corners over reeded jambs and lintels; that to the left has a hob grate, that to the right has a c1860 cast-iron arch-plate register grate. The room to the ground-floor front has panelled shutters, the room to the ground-floor rear has a high horizontal window of 4 panes (probably a former scullery). SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a rendered wall attached to the south-east corner has coping which extends from the platband; a flat arch with a recessed panel above is over a C20 gate. The wall continues to the south-east along the street for approx 5m as high rendered rubblestone wall.

Listing NGR: SX8553071034

External Links

• Wikidata Q26548176

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)