Description

SX 8178 BOVEY TRACEY EAST STREET, (South side) Bovey Tracey 11/64 Rose Cottage including archway - adjoining Front House Guest House GV II

Self-catering apartments, part of Front House Guest House (q.v.); formerly a cottage, C16 or C17, considerably enlarged and rebuilt in C19. Rubble stone, mostly covered with roughcast on street side and on part of rear. Tarred, slated roofs. Older range, to left, presents its gable to the street, this having a projecting granite ashlar chimneystack with chamfered plinth, offsets and tapered cap. 2 C19 brick chimneystacks at rear. L-shaped plan, the right-hand section along the street frontage and the rear section of the gable-ended range being almost certainly later additions. 2 storeys. The street frontage contains no openings, except for a small 4-pane wood window of late C19 or early C20 in second storey of right-hand section. In courtyard at rear, the west wall of the gable-end range has been re-windowed, and probably refaced, in C19. Windows have jambs and segmental arches of red brick and 3-pane wood casements. Interior: ground-storey fireplace in north gable has granite jambs and a heavy granite lintel, cracked in the centre. Archway, on street frontage between Rose Cottage and the guest house, is elliptical and composed of red-brick headers with rubble stone above and a concrete coping. Rough-cast on street side. C19.

Listing NGR: SX8178078567

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