Furzeham Court House Including Garden Walls And Gate

Furzeham Court House, including the garden walls and gate, is a detached house located on the hillside above All Saints Church in Brixham. It was built in 1832, with later additions to the left and rear. The house features solid rendered walls and a slated roof, with rendered chimneys on each end wall. The layout consists of two rooms flanking a central entrance and stair hall, with an added room visible on the left inside. There is a long rear wing, likely original, on the right and a shorter rear wing, probably from the 19th century, to the left of the original range.

The house is two storeys high and four windows wide, with the left-hand window set in the addition. The central entrance has a round-arched doorway with a recessed surround, featuring a late 20th-century glazed door beneath a plain semicircular fanlight. There is also a second round-arched doorway at the left-hand end of the front. The windows are fitted with late 20th-century small-paned wood casements. The eaves have a deep flat cornice, which is panelled on the soffit and supported by paired brackets.

To the right of the main frontage, there is a side-passage doorway made of red and cream brick with a pointed arch and a planked door. The interior, inspected only on the ground floor, includes a wooden dogleg staircase with closed strings, thin square balusters, and column-newels. Both adjacent rooms have panelled shutters, and the left-hand room features a white marble chimneypiece, likely from the mid-19th century, with enriched brackets made of coloured marble. A pencil inscription behind the right-hand shutter in this room reads "John Sprague Green" and the date "1858."

Additional features include a narrow terrace in front of the house with a tall stone rubble retaining wall. At the foot of this terrace is a garden enclosed by stone rubble walls on three sides. To the right of the garden, there is a flight of steps leading up to the house, accompanied by a 19th-century iron gate with spear-head uprights and a twisted shaft.