Furzeham Court House Including Garden Walls And Gate

BRIXHAM

SX9256SW STATION HILL, Lower Brixham 1946-1/10/213 (North West side) 10/01/75 Furzeham Court House including garden walls and gate (Formerly Listed as: STATION HILL Furzeham Court Hotel)

GV II

Detached house, standing on the hillside above All Saints Church (qv). 1832, with additions to left and at rear. Solid rendered walls. Slated roof. Rendered chimney on each end wall. 2 rooms flanking centre entrance and stairhall. Added room to left (straight joint visible inside). Long rear wing, possibly original, to right. Shorter rear wing, probably C19, to left of original range. 2 storeys. 4 windows wide, the left-hand window set in the addition. Round-arched doorway in centre of original front; recessed surround; late C20 glazed door with original reeded transom below a plain semicircular fanlight. A second round-arched doorway at left-hand end of front. Windows have late C20 small-paned wood casements. Deep flat eaves-cornice, panelled on the soffit and with paired brackets. Abutting the right-hand end of the frontage is a side-passage doorway in red and cream brick with a pointed arch; planked door. INTERIOR inspected on ground-floor only. Wooden dogleg staircase with closed strings, thin square balusters and column-newels. Both adjacent rooms have panelled shutters. Left-hand room has white marble chimneypiece, probably mid C19, with enriched brackets of coloured marble. Behind the right-hand shutter in this room is written in pencil the name John Sprague Green and the date 1858. Subsidiary features: narrow terrace to front of house with tall stone rubble retaining wall. At its foot is a garden enclosed by stone rubble walls on the other 3 sides. To the right of the garden is a flight of steps leading up to the house, with spear-head uprights to C19 iron gate with twisted shaft.

Listing NGR: SX9233456195