Peel House

CHULMLEIGH NEW STREET (north side), SS 6814 - 6914 Chulmleigh 7/88 Peel House GV II Former police station, now private dwelling. Late C19. Painted rendered stone rubble. Slate roofs with gabled ends. Rendered stack at left gable end and axial and gable end rendered stacks to rear wing. Plan: asymmetrical L-shaped plan with passage to right side running from front doorway through to former cells at rear, with 3 rooms in line to left of passage the front room wider than the 2 rear rooms which are separated by the staircase. The two principal rooms to the front have been converted to single large room in C20, and the room between the staircase and former cells from a scullery to kitchen. The two former cells have been altered into a single room extending the width of the rear wing. Exterior: 2 storeys. Large gabled half dormer to front with twin 4 paned sashes above canted bay window with hipped slate roof and original diamond glazing pattern to left of segmental pointed arched doorway with ashlar quoins, chamfered surround with pyramid stops and original studded plank door. 2 half dormers to left side of rear wing. The 2 right-hand windows retain original diamond glazing pattern. 2 blocked windows formerly lighing the cells to the rear gable end retain their wrought iron grilles.

Listing NGR: SS6860414169