Description

BRIXHAM

SX9055 BRIXHAM ROAD, Churston Ferrers
1946-1/6/47 (South side (off))
18/10/49 Stables and other ancillary
buildings immediately NW of Gramercy
Hall School
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIXHAM ROAD, Churston Ferrers
Lupton House (School) inc stable
range)

GV II

Stables, coach house, brew house, kennels and other
outbuildings. Probably c1772. Altered and enlarged by George
Wightwick c1843. Solid walls of stone rubble, part-painted,
part-rendered. Slated roofs, some hipped chimneys with
cornices, as on the house.
Plan: a long range of stables with coach house at right-hand
end. Attached to latter at right-angles is what is believed to
have been a brew house, now the school gymnasium. Standing
forward in the front curtilage at either end is a small house;
these appear to have been linked originally by a range since
demolished. The right-hand house is linked to the stables and
brew house, probably part of the coach house. The left-hand
house and the left end of the stables are abutted by a
courtyard of what are reported to have been kennels.
Exterior: single-storeyed; the houses with garrets. Stables
and coach house have 11-bay front. Round-arched main doorway
with plain imposts, archivolt and keystone; top entablature
and blocking-course. 3 segmental-headed windows with keystones
at either side; 2-light wood casements with transom-lights,
those to right with 3 panes per light. At right-hand end 2
round-arched openings to coach house; plain imposts, archivolt
and keystone, except that right-hand opening mutilated.
Left-hand obscured by added lean-to.
The houses have 3-bay fronts, the bays flanked and separated
by Doric pilasters supporting an entablature with triangular
pediment. Centre window with blank panel over; semicircular
window in pediment. Right-hand house has 2 blocked windows and
a plank door in right side wall. Left-hand house, ruinous at
time of survey, has had window converted into a door and
windows inserted into the side-bays.
Brew house has 2 windows and 2 doorways (1 converted into a
window) in the side wall facing the house; original windows
have small-paned glazing, that to right with 6-paned sashes.
Kennels have 2 ruined buildings flanking the entrance from the
stable yard, and 2 more flanking the entrance on the opposing
side. To the north-east is an arc of 8 cells with paired
doorways having arches of red brick; C20 flat concrete roof.
Large granite trough in front of them. To the south-west is an
open space walled on the outside which contains the footings
of a small square building.
(The Buildings of England: Cherry B: Devon (2nd edition):
1989-: 883).

Listing NGR: SX9022855044

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26581072

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