Description

BARNSTAPLE

SS5733 GOODLEIGH ROAD
684-1/3/112 (North side (off))
31/12/73 Gorwell House

II

House. c1825. For the owner of the Derby Lace Works. Stuccoed
mass wall construction; natural slate roof concealed behind
parapet; stacks with rendered shaft. Overall L-plan. Main
block 2 rooms wide and one room deep with a central entrance
passage containing the stair; rear left service wing, partly
in separate ownership.
2 storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay front. Parapet above
deeply-moulded cornice. Windows with floating cornices on
small brackets. Steps up to 7-bay Bathstone Ionic loggia with
entablature with moulded cornice and paired columns at either
end and to the central doorway, returning for 4 bays at either
end. Doorcase with paired pilasters; 2-leaf front door with
glazing bars and margin panes. 4 ground-floor French windows
with glazing bars and margin panes with external sliding
louvred shutters. First-floor windows 2-pane sashes with
margin panes and housing for missing shutters. The left return
retains some probably original 12-pane sash windows.
INTERIOR: very intact; includes joinery and turned baluster
staircase and good plaster friezes and cornices; original
chimneypieces. First floor said to have Gothic plaster
vaulting.

Listing NGR: SS5727233491

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