Hillbrow Including Garden Wall To The West

CREDITON

SX8399 PARK ROAD 672-1/4/133 (North side) 11/10/72 Hillbrow including garden wall to the west

GV II

House, now in use as residential home, including garden wall to the west. Early C19, some 1930s alterations, 1980s addition. Brick, mostly roughcast; slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts. Plan: L plan, with double depth main block of 2 rooms wide with an off-centre entrance into a passage. Exterior. 3 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-bay south front with a hipped slate roof with deep eaves and a moulded cornice with shaped eaves brackets; left and right clasping pilasters; platbands at first and second floor levels. 1930s timber lean-to porch in the third bay from the left with herringbone brick nogging. All windows have probably 1930s eared shouldered architraves: 3 ground and 4 first floor horned 12-pane sashes. Small second floor windows with various C20 casements, blind recess to the right. Matching cornice and platbands on the right return, facing the Exeter Road, where the windows are C20 iron casements. A single storey 1980s addition to the main block, adjoining the south front at the west, is in a matching style with a pitched slate roof and 3 matching timber small-pane sashes with similar architraves. Beyond this addition, the garden is enclosed by a tall, thatched, roughcast cob wall. This includes an attractive door with C19 decorated cast iron grille panels. Interior: Retains some C19 features including joinery, a stick baluster stair with a ramped handrail, some moulded cornices and a white marble chimney-piece.

Listing NGR: SX8385799958