Description

CREDITON

SS826000 UNION TERRACE
672-1/5/175 No.5
11/10/72
(Formerly Listed as:
UNION TERRACE
Belstone House)

GV II

House. Circa 1740-60, incorporating fragment of earlier
building. Front elevation painted Flemish bond brick on stone
rubble footings, rear elevation partly local volcanic trap
rubble, rear wing plastered, partly rubble and partly local
volcanic trap ashlar. Slate roof; end stacks and lateral stack
to rear wing with brick shafts.
Plan: L-plan. Main block single depth, 2 rooms wide with a
central entrance into a passage; rear left service wing.
Exterior: 3 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with deep boxed
eaves. Central 6-panel front door, the lower panels flush with
an C18 doorcase with reeded pilasters and a entablature with a
frieze of mutules and lozenges with moulded brackets below the
cornice. The door is flanked by probably mid C19 canted bay
windows with hipped roofs, glazed with 4-pane sashes in the
centre and 2-pane in the outer lights. Below the windows in
each bay are timber windows either to a cellar or to ventilate
the floors. These have strap hinges and lattice iron grilles
and look earlier than the windows: they may be C18 and re-used
when the bays were added. 3 first floor early C18 12-pane
sashes with segmental heads and flush frames. 3 first floor
C19 windows with segmental heads, glazed with 2-light
casements, 2 panes per light. The rear elevation of the main
block has various C20 timber windows including small-pane
sashes.
Interior: Numerous C18 features include Italian marble ground
floor chimneypieces; a timber eared chimney-piece on the first
floor; plaster cornices; joinery including skirtings, doors
with fielded panels and doorcases with masons' mitres, 2-panel
doors, fitted cupboards; reeded doorcase with rosettes to
ground floor room right. Good C18 dog-leg stair off entrance
passage with a flat moulded handrail and turned balusters.
Plaster has been stripped off the end wall of the service wing
revealing a section of ashlar volcanic stone rubble adjacent
to a small cloam oven. The ashlar work suggests that this wall
may be C16 or C17 in part.
This is a fine C18 house, part of a good row of Georgian
houses on Union Terrace.

Listing NGR: SS8329800259

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580481

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)