St Aubyns School

TIVERTON

SS91SW EXETER ROAD, Ashley 848-1/4/44 (North West side) 17/03/95 St Aubyn's School

II

Small country house, now used as school. Late C18, remodelled and extended early C19 and entrance front extended late C20. Rendered or stuccoed walls; dry slate roofs, hipped behind moulded parapet to main block and gabled to service wing; rendered stacks. Double-depth plan with central stair hall and service wing to rear left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 5-window entrance front to (south) elevation which has 4 Tuscan columns of former porch built forward in front of central bays; shallow cambered arches over early C19 hornless sashes with thin glazing bars and margin panes; shaped shutter boxes to three 1st-floor openings and louvered shutters to 3 openings. Mid-floor string course continued to 2:1:2-bay principal garden front with projecting central bay and similar sashes plus central French windows to ground floor. Service wing has gabled 2-window range to left of entrance front with original 12-pane sashes and pyramidal-roofed louvered bellcote. INTERIOR: retains its fine original features where inspected including: open-well staircase with ramped mahogany handrail over stick balusters on open string, with wreathed newel; oak panelled doors within moulded architraves; moulded cornices to reception rooms, left-hand room of garden front with dentilled cornice and there are several good chimneypieces. HISTORY: formerly known as Howden Court and shown on a map of 1801.

Listing NGR: SS9475611532