Little Hill (North And South Side) Including Front Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Villa. 3 related planning applications.

Little Hill (North And South Side) Including Front Garden Wall

WRENN ID
veiled-soffit-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1986
Type
Villa
Source
Historic England listing

Description

The building comprises a semi-detached pair of villas, which appear to date from around 1860 but are more accurately dated 1885. Constructed of brick with ashlar dressings, they have slate roofs with hipped front wings, boxed eaves, and lion's head guttering. Ridge stacks are present. The villas are arranged with a symmetrical mirror plan, consisting of three principal rooms and a stair hall forming an L-shape to the front. Principal entrances are positioned on each side, with service rooms and a stable block arranged around central rear courtyards.

The two-story west front has a four-window range, with bayed ends. The fenestration is complete with four-paned sash windows, margin glazing bars, and horizontal sliding timber shutters. The central bays have sashes on each floor, while the wing bays are twin sashes. A colonette with crocket capitals rises over a canted bay window featuring an ashlar blocking course ornamented with a large Tudor Rose decoration. The north and south entrance fronts include a single bay of sashes on each floor to the west of the twin sashes, with a similar colonette and ornamentation continuing east to form a distyle portico with double crocket capitals. Each entrance features a four-panelled door with a two-paned overlight. To the east is a short, gable-ended projection that contains an integral stable block with a loft above.

The interiors retain original 19th-century joinery, including richly moulded plasterwork cornices in the principal rooms. Impressive dog-leg staircases are present on each side, featuring sugar barley balusters and moulded handrails ramped up to larger newels with acorn finials. A front garden wall is constructed of squat stone balusters, with a single low central brick pier and an L-shaped triple cluster of similar piers flanking each curved end section.

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