Description

ASHBURTON

SX7569 EAST STREET
849-1/9/84 (South side)
07/08/51 The Golden Lion Hotel

GV II*

Large house, now hotel. Early or mid C18, partly remodelled
and extended late C18 or early C19 (reputedly c1790 for
Nicholas Tripe, surgeon). Front and back walls of painted
brick; right side wall and addition to left rendered. Hipped
slated roof. Rendered chimneys. Double-fronted and
double-depth; centre entrance passage leading to staircase
between right-hand front and back rooms. Extension to left
with ballroom on first floor. 3 storeys. 5 windows wide with
1-window extension to left. Main entrance has panelled front
door in moulded architrave; 4 moulded panels above, flush
panels, including a centre octagon, below. Flanking fluted
pilasters supporting entablature with modillioned cornice.
Upper mouldings of cornice replaced or concealed by a deep
flat canopy with coffered underside (probably early C19);
sides of canopy encased in late C20, but on top the older
figure of a golden lion with its paw on a blue ball. At the
front the canopy is supported by a large iron hoop rising from
2 painted stone columns. Windows have flat gauged arches and
barred sashes in concealed frames: 8 over 8 panes in ground
and second storeys, 4 over 4 panes in third storey. Front
flanked by raised quoins, probably of cement. Modillioned
eaves-cornice. Addition to left has windows with barred
sashes: 8 over 8 panes in ground storey, 4 over 4 panes in
third storey. Second storey has a variant of the Venetian
window with 3 round-arched lights. Prominent boxed
eaves-cornice. Side wall to right has 2 canted bays, the
windows with barred sashes of 8 and 4 panes. Similar sashes in
rear wall; extension with 3-light Venetian window matching
that at the front.
Interior: inner door with early or mid C19 moulded frame;
patterned fanlight incorporating 6-sided lantern with enriched
frame. Ground floor rooms and entrance passage of original
part of building have original bracketed and dentilled
cornices; bracketed cornice on first floor landing (rooms not
inspected). C18 dog-leg staircase, its balustrade voluted at
the foot; turned balusters with square necking-pieces,
column-newels, shaped step-ends. Ballroom has moulded cornice;
enriched chandelier boss set in a small dome.

Listing NGR: SX7585770002

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535817

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)