Dunstone

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SX9264SW LOWER WARBERRY ROAD 885-1/20/137 (North side) 02/05/74 Dunstone (Formerly Listed as: LOWER WARBERRY ROAD Audrey Court and Dunstone)

GV II

Villa, in use as hotel. Said originally to have been one build with the Warberry Nursing Home, adjoining at left. Probably late 1860s. Plastered; slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with cornices. PLAN: Main block faces south, entrance on east return into passage leading to open well stair hall. Probably secondary north-east block with massive chimney shaft was kitchen, partly infilling earlier stable yard. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-bay east (entrance) front with a pedimented gable and corner pilasters with moulded cornices at first- floor sill level. Projecting porch with panelled corner pilasters, entablature, parapet and ball finials. Hollow-chamfered segmental-headed outer doorway with mahogany panelled door. Centre bay above, flanked by pilasters, contains a 12-pane sash, blind round-headed windows to left-hand bay with pilastered architraves. First-floor window right reglazed in the C20, ground-floor window round-headed with moulded pilastered architrave. Segmental-headed archway to former stable yard at an obtuse angle to the right matches the porch doorway but has been infilled. The left (south) return has a 3:1 window front, the 3-window section broken forward under a pedimented gable and articulated with pilasters with a plain entablature. 3 first-floor 12-pane sashes. Pedimented doorway to left; projecting, flat-roofed, secondary bay window to the right with paired C20 two-pane sashes and a balustraded parapet. Right-hand bay of front in a similar style has one first floor 12-pane sash, ground-floor window converted to doorway into fine Edwardian octagonal conservatory with an octagonal lantern and wrought-iron finial. Conservatory has dentil cornice and high-transomed windows with small panes above the transom. INTERIOR: Very complete with fine staircse; joinery; plasterwork. Said originally to have been built in 1868 by General Redvers Buller

Listing NGR: SX9248064046