Description

SX 9292 SE FAIRPARK ROAD
871/7/10051 (East side)
23-JUN-00 Ernsborough Court

II

Shown as Ernsborough House on OS map.
Large villa, sub-divided into flats in 1980, previously used as hospital after World War II. c.1860/1870s. Red brick with painted stucco dressings. Hipped slate roof with red ridge tiles. Rendered chimney shafts with bands. Some cast iron rainwater goods. Italianate style.
Plan: the main range is large and roughly U-plan with a main entrance between projecting left and right wings. Rooms heated by axial chimneystacks.
Exterior: 3 storey main block plus basements; front wings 2 storey. Deep eaves with stuccoed eavesband and moulded brackets to verges and eaves. Stucco bands at 1st and 2nd floor levels. Architraves to windows, some pilastered and round-headed with keyblocks, others eared and shouldered, some with cornices and brackets. Mostly 12-pane hornless sash windows, some C20 replacement windows, one 2-light small pane casement window at first floor level main range left. Tuscan loggia between front wings with balcony above with pierced stone balustrade. The show front is the right return with a 3:3-bay front. The side of the front wing, to the left, is symmetrical and 3 bays the centre bay broken forward and gabled with a broken pediment. The taller main block, to the right, is also broken forward in the centre with blind recesses against the chimneystack.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.
This is one of the best examples of a large mid Victorian Italianate brick and stucco villa in Exeter.
(G. Venn, Discovering Exeter: St Leonards, Exeter, 1982, p.32)

Listing NGR: SX9252592244

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661040

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)