Eastfield And Mellguards Including Boundary Wall And Gate And Gate Piers

TIVERTON

SS9513 PARK ROAD, Tiverton 848-1/5/235 (East side) 29/06/90 Nos.3, 5 AND 7 Eastfield and Mellguards, incl boundary wall, gate & gate piers (Formerly Listed as: PARK ROAD (East side) No.7)

GV II

Pair of semi-detached houses (Mellguards now sub-divided). Eastfield mid C19 with late C20 addition, Mellguards late C19. MATERIALS: Eastfield has solid, rendered walls; Mellguards is of yellow brick with dressings of red brick and stone. Hipped slated roofs. Eastfield has 2 rendered chimneys, centrally placed at either end of roof. Mellguards has a single yellow brick stack with red brick bands, consisting of 6 diagonally set shafts and placed in the centre of the roof. PLAN: 4-square, double-depth. EXTERIOR: Eastfield has 2-storeys with 3-window symmetrical front. decorated band between the storeys. Deeply projecting bracketed eaves cornice. Segmental-headed openings. 4-panelled door, the 2 upper panels glazed. French window at either side. 6-paned sashes in upper storey. In front of ground storey an open-fronted glazed verandah with elaborately-braced wooden uprights. Mellguards has 2-storeys, the front with a pair of canted bay windows, the light segmental-headed. Pedestal course of patterned red brick and carved stone between storeys. Deeply projecting bracketed eaves cornice. At left-hand end a doorway with wooden entrance porch which is an extension of the verandah at Eastfield. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: front boundary wall to Park Road is of stone rubble with flat stone coping (the coping replaced in concrete at right-hand end). At left-hand end, where the wall turns eastwards, is a square stone pier with a low pyramidical cap. At the entrance to Eastfield the wall turns inwards to form 2 quadrants; square wooden gateposts with shaped tops, wooden gate with diagonally set, intersecting braces. At right-hand end the entrance to Mellguards has 2 square stone gate piers with low pyramidical caps. HISTORY: the 25 inch Ordnance Survey map of 1903 shows this as a single house called Eastfield. The name Mellguards is not shown, nor the present entrance to that part of the building. Nos.3 & 5 were not formerly listed.

Listing NGR: SS9571613188