Mount Ebford

SX 98 NE WOODBURY EXMOUTH ROAD, Ebford

1/103 Mount Ebford 11.11.52 - II

Detached house now in multiple occupation. Early C19. Built by Thomas Huckell Lea for his widowed mother on the site of his father's pleasure house. Stuccoed brick; hipped slate roof concealed behind parapet. Single depth plan with principal room to either side of central entrance hall with rear wing, with stair turret in internal angle of L-shape thus formed. 3 storeys. Moulded cornice and parapet extends around main range. Hornless sash windows throughout, of 12 panes to ground and 1st floors; 2nd floor with 3 panes, 6 down. Front: symmetrical 2:1:2 bays, the central bay projecting; central porch with Tuscan columns, pilasters, pediment and cornice with paterae in frieze; half-glazed door. Right-hand end with 3 storey bow, each floor with tripartite sash window. Left-hand side elevation with 5 window range; sash windows survive to rear wing. Later leanto and late-C20 conservatory to rear. Reference: Ursula W Brighouse, Woodbury, A View from the Beacon, (1981), p127

Listing NGR: SX9812287563