Description

ASHBURTON

SX7570 EAST STREET
849-1/9/73 (South side)
No.70

GV II

Former coach-house and stable, now converted to living
accommodation for hotel next door at No 68 (qv). Dated 1894.
Solid rendered walls, lined to imitate masonry. Slated roof.
Rendered chimney on each gable end. Symmetrical, with covered
carriage entrance flanked by room at either side. Buildings on
all 3 sides of courtyard to rear. 2 storeys, 3 windows wide.
In centre, 4-centred arch with moulded spandrels; square
hoodmould with sponge-like terminals; patterned iron gates.
Outer windows in each storey have mullioned-and-transomed wood
casements, the lower lights 2-paned, those above 6-paned.
Ground storey windows have square hood-moulds; those in upper
storey rise above the eaves where they are finished with
gables decorated with projecting braced and bracketed
bargeboards. Over the centre arch a small 2-light wood
casement window. On the roof above it a blind triangular gable
with moulded bargeboards; in its centre the date 1894 and
monogram HPT. Whole front flank by raised quoins. Courtyard
buildings altered; stone rubble range to left.

Listing NGR: SX7588770034

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571824

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2