Holset House Including Barometer Fixed To North Wall

DARTMOUTH

SX8750 BAYARDS COVE 673-1/6/34 (West side) 14/09/49 No.8 Holset House including barometer fixed to north wall

GV II

House, maybe 2 small houses originally. Probably early or mid C17, some early C19 modernisation. Mixed construction; side and back walls of stone rubble and front walls are plastered timber-framing; stone rubble stack and chimneyshaft of C19 painted brick; slate roof. PLAN: Corner site containing 2 small ranges, each of one-room plan and smaller to possibly later right-hand range. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window range. Plastered front walls are lightly blocked out as ashlar, early C19 superficially but structurally C17. Side walls corbelled out to carry second-floor jetty to the left and with first-floor jetty to the right (north) end. Left range has left-hand front doorway containing a C20 studded door with a small window. To right a pair of sash windows without glazing bars. First floor has canted bay with front 16-pane sash window and side 8-pane sashes. Second floor has smaller 16-pane sash window under gable with shaped bargeboards and a terracotta finial to the apex. On the right-hand range the plain side wall to the quay contains single ground-floor horizontal-sliding 12-pane sash. North front has C19 plank door and a horned 4-pane sash to each of the upper floors. Roof at same level as main range but is much smaller. Gable with shaped bargeboards and a terracotta finial to the apex. INTERIOR: Largely the result of apparently superficial C19 and C20 modernisations; the beams are plastered over and the fireplaces blocked with grates. C19 stair from ground to first floor, but original timber newel above. Roof not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Barometer fixed to the north wall to right of the door. Good Negretti Zambra manufacture in wooden case with glass front. An inscribed brass plaque explains that it was presented to the mariners of Dartmouth in 1860 by the MP John Hardy of Tunstall Hall, Staffordshire.

Listing NGR: SX8784450999