Liberal Club

CREDITON

SS826000 HIGH STREET 672-1/5/69 (South side) 11/10/72 No.37 Liberal Club

GV II

House, now used as club and offices. Late C18. Rendered, right return partly slate-hung; slate roof;end stacks with brick shafts. Plan: double depth with central entrance into a passage, principal stair rising to rear right, service stair off passage to the right.C20 ground-floor hall added to rear. Exterior: 3 storeys and basement.Symmetrical 3-bay front with left and right pilasters with grooved rustication; moulded cornice below parapet. Porch high above the street with 2 flights of steps up, parallel to the front with a snecked local volcanic trap wall in front with granite quoins. Flat porch hood with a moulded cornice supported on 2 distinctive granite columns. Recessed 6-panel front door with panelled reveals and an overlight with geometric glazing bars. Original windows with moulded architraves: large 8/12-pane sashes to the ground floor and outer first floor windows, centre first flor window 6/9. Second floor has 16-pane outer sashes and a 12-pane sash in the centre. C20 door inserted ground floor extreme right. Interior: Features of interest include joinery; a stick baluster stair with a wreathed mahogany handrail; panelled shutters and plaster cornices.

Listing NGR: SS8301400320