Rosemont

CREDITON

SS826000 UNION TERRACE 672-1/5/171 No.2 19/03/51 Rosemont

GV II

House, now used as hotel. Late C18. Stuccoed with chanelled rustication; slate roof; end stacks have rendered shafts with old pots. Plan: Double depth plan, 2 rooms wide. Exterior: 3 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front, the outer bays bowed. Roof with deep eaves with moulded brackets below a moulded eaves cornice which returns to left and right. Left and right pilasters. Central doorway with steps with curved iron balustrades up to a 6-panel front door, bottom panels flush. Doric porch with fluted columns and entablature; 6-panel front door, bottom panels flush. Bows have curved ground floor tripartite sashes, the lights divided by stuccoed mullions with sunk panels with anthemion carving. 12-pane sashes in centre, 4-pane in outer lights. Similar first floor outer windows; 12-pane sash in centre. Second floor outer windows smaller tripartite sashes: 3/6-pane in the centre, 1/2 in the outer lights, central 12-pane sash. The left return has a second floor cast iron balcony on brackets with a tent roof the ends enclosed with timber trellis work in a Chinese Chippendale style. Interior: Retains original features: joinery (including panelled doors); marble chimney-pieces; dog-leg stair with a flat moulded handrail and slender turned balusters. One of a good row of large Georgian town houses in Union Terrace.

Listing NGR: SS8332800236