Bronte House

SX 98 NE LYMPSTONE EXMOUTH ROAD (east side), Lympstone 5/31 Bronte House - - II

Large detached house now divided into 2 dwellings. Late C16, much enlarged and altered in C19. Cob and stone, roughcast; gabled-end slate roof. Formerly a 3- room, cross-passage plan house, extended to form overall a double-depth plan. Older range heated by left-hand external end stack (now redundant) presumably to the service end; it is possible that the hall was heated by an axial stack backing onto passage which has since been dismantled but which may account for an odd internal space between the two left-hand rooms that rises through the full height of the house. Later axial and end stacks to C19 extension. All with brick shafts. 2 storeys. Front: (old range, facing south): 3-window range, each bay separately gabled with wavy bargeboarding and apex pendants. Fancy cast-iron snow guards: 2-pane horned sash windows to first floor. Tripartite door (to hall) with moulded architrave, the uprights with capitals; tripartite horned sash window to inner room, the upper sashes with curved corners. Good open-work cast iron verandah with elaborate uprights and decorated spandrels. Asymmetrical 3-gabled window range to rear, horned sashes to first floor, casement windows below, with gabled porch, glazed with margin panes. Roof: 7-bay roof, principals halved and crossed at apex, collar halved; all pegged.

Listing NGR: SX9998884067