St Rumon'S Service Wing And Stable Yard

ROMANSLEIGH ROMANSLEIGH SS 72 SW 1/55 St Rumon's, service wing and 20.2.67 stable-yard GV II Rectory, now house. Dated 1860. Rubble, roughcast and whitewashed, wide eaves, hipped bitumenised slate roof, 2 very tall brick stacks with oversailing courses. Plan: L-shaped plan, front range square on plan with central staircase hall and flanking rooms, large service wing at rear of left room. Regency style. Exterior: 2 storey, 2 window symmetrical entrance front, deep 8-pane sash windows on ground floor with steps down into the garden, on first floor a 12-pane sash window to left and a blank window opening to right. Door opening to extreme left in an angled projecting single-storey porch with a flat roof, to left face a semi- circular headed door opening in a raised surround, paired 3-panelled doors, fanlight, to right face of this porch a further door opening, now blocked with a 2- light casement with glazing bars inserted. Section of ramped down wall to left, gives onto a stable-yard with a range of one and 2-storey buildings, sasn windows with glazing bars, plank doors to 3 door openings. Garden front to right return in conforming style, semi-circular headed niche to centre of ground floor, later 3- light casement inserted, above a large stairlight with a sash window, to each side a datestone, to left:- "God Save The Queen A.B. 1584 (sic)"; to right:- "God Save The Queen J.H.S. 1860". Interior: coeval joinery including doors, door oases, Jacobean - type staircase and some minor panelling. Three good fireplaces on ground floor; to drawing room with marble chimneypiece and acanthus brackets to the mantle-shelf; to library in High Victorian Gothic style with 4-centred arch head with rich leaf spandrels; fireplace to kitchen in a fluted surround with roundels.

Listing NGR: SS7268920557