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Cambria House

A Grade II Listed Building in Teignmouth, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.5553 / 50°33'18"N

Longitude: -3.4914 / 3°29'28"W

OS Eastings: 294448

OS Northings: 73896

OS Grid: SX944738

Mapcode National: GBR P2.74M1

Mapcode Global: FRA 37KL.RLR

Plus Code: 9C2RHG45+4C

Entry Name: Cambria House

Listing Date: 30 June 1949

Last Amended: 17 July 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1269125

English Heritage Legacy ID: 461093

ID on this website: 101269125

Location: Teignbridge, Devon, TQ14

County: Devon

District: Teignbridge

Civil Parish: Teignmouth

Built-Up Area: Teignmouth

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: East Teignmouth

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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Description



TEIGNMOUTH

SX9473 DAWLISH ROAD
25-1/5/120 (West side)
30/06/49 No.81
Cambria House
(Formerly Listed as:
DAWLISH ROAD
(West side)
No.81
Cambrian House)

II

House. Early C19. Painted roughcast, hipped slate roof with
10 diagonally-set flues to axial brick stack. Square plan.
Picturesque style.
EXTERIOR: single-storey with attics; 3-window range. Reeded
cast-iron columns support a wide overhang of the roof, forming
a verandah to the east and south garden fronts and part of the
west side. The 2 garden fronts each have 3 gabled dormers over
2-light margin-paned casement windows and segmental-arched
fanlights with radial glazing bars, those to the centres have
similar windows in larger dormers, the west side has one
dormer. The 6-panel door is in the west side where a 2-storey
gabled projection to eaves has a 6/6-pane sash window to the
entrance hall.
INTERIOR: a semi-elliptical arch leads to an open-well,
open-string staircase with stick balusters, turned newels and
a wreathed swan's neck rail and curtail step. Rooms to the
ground floor have dado rails, reeded cornices and marble
fireplaces, one red and one black. Fireplaces to the attics
are painted stone.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the house was formerly thatched and was
probably built by Commander Laurence Gwynne (1772-1845),
Sheriff of London and Middlesex and a mathematician, who lived
here.
An interesting example of an early C19 cottage ornee, the plan
formed around its central stack and enveloped by a verandah.


Listing NGR: SX9444873896

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