Ham House

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PLYMOUTH, Ham, TEWKESBURY CLOSE, Ham House

25/01/54

(Formerly Listed as: HAM, Ham House (Library))

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Farmhouse, later a country house, more recently a library, a care home, and flats. 1639 for Robert Trelawney, a merchant of Plymouth, altered in 1739 and late C19, when most of the windows were replaced in the style of the original windows, and extensions were made at the rear. Rendered rubble with original granite dressings and C19 freestone dressings; steep dry slate roofs with slightly-projecting eaves and verges with barge boards with central pendants; 2 tall brick gable and lateral stacks with entablature to left and rear of left-hand wing, other stacks demolished or truncated. U-shaped plan plus T-plan wing at rear right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 1:2:1-window front with original moulded round-arched central doorway with date, carved spandrels and hoodmould; flanking original 2-light mullioned windows with 2-light C19 transomed windows above; full-width porch between wings carried on paired Tuscan columns at either end. Front of left-hand wing with 3-light windows, the other wing with 4-light windows, all C19 and with hoodmoulds; similar windows to side elevations. At rear of left-hand side is an C18 Venetian window with moulded cornices and leaded glazing.

Listing NGR: SX4620257672