Description

DITTISHAM SX8654-SX8754 MANOR STREET 17/294 DITTISHAM (North side), The Ferry Boat Inn

GV II

Public House. Probably C18, remodelled in circa mid C19 and with C20 alterations. Stone rubble with rendered south and wet elevations. Slate roof with gabled left hand north end and hipped right hand south end; black glazed ridge tiles. Projecting stone rubble stack at left hand end with rebuilt rendered shaft and turned clay pot. Plan: Rectangular Plan. Probably originally 2 rooms with a central entrance, the left hand room heated from a gable end stack, the right hand room has a rear lateral stack and a cellar below with access to the lower level from the shore of the River Dart at this end. The building was much altered internally probably in the C20 and the ground floor partitions were removed and a bowed single storey extension was added across the front. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2-windows south front. On first and second floor C20 2-light casements with glazing bars, the second floor in cambered head openings. Across the ground storey of front a single storey bowed edtension was built in the C20 with a flat roof, a round-headed central doorway with a plank door, a mantle-pane fixed light window to the left and a C20 sash to the right. The right hand east end facing the river has C20 windows, a 2-light second floor casement with a cambered head, a 16 pane first floor sash and a wide ariel on the ground floor with a cellar doorway below with a C20 door. Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX8664054815

External Links

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