Description

TIVERTON

SS91SW LONGDRAG HILL, Hensleigh
848-1/4/88 Hensleigh House, including walls of
14/12/72 enclosed garden

GV II

Small country house. c1700 with possible earlier core. Brick
laid to Flemish bond; dry slate hipped roofs over modillion
cornices; some pedimented roof dormers; brick stacks with
moulded and dentilled cornices. Double-depth plan plus service
wing at rear projecting rear and right of right-hand corner;
some parts to rear demolished 1960s.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; symmetrical 5-window front.
Original 24-pane hornless sashes with thick glazing bars, all
the windows set flush with wall surface; blind windows to 2nd
from left bay. Central doorway (restored after removal of
Victorian alterations) has original spoked fanlight over
6-panel door; distyle Tuscan wooden porch.
Left-hand return is 6-window range garden front with alternate
blind windows; original sashes over mostly rebuilt early C19
canted bays to 2nd and 4th bays.
Right-hand return is 6-window range over basement with most
openings blind; tall stair window to 4th from left bay;
original sashes to bay right of this.
Rear is blind except for 12-pane sash right of centre. Service
wing is 2-window range to front and has 12-pane sashes and
patterned overlight over panelled door on the left.
Garden front of wing has 3-bay opening with Tuscan columns.
INTERIOR: Pevsner notes that left-hand (south east) room has
fine Baroque moulded and carved plaster ceiling with
quatrefoil central panel, foliage scrolls, putti and two
eagles with laurel wreaths, bolection-moulded marble
chimneypiece and bolection-moulded oak panelling.
Right-hand (north east) room has early C19 window shutters
with inner beaded detail, early C19 Greek Revival cornice and
panelling in the style of c1600 which has some genuine pieces;
early C19 open-well stair.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rubble kitchen garden walls with
dressed stone arched doorways.
HISTORY: the home of Ambrose Brewin in the C19.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: 1989-: 819).

Listing NGR: SS9339412551

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664667

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Somerset: South and West (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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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper