Lower Yeatson

ASHPRINGTON BOW SX85NW 6/35 Lower Yeatson

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Farmhouse. Dated 1833. Local stone rubble with red brick window dressings. Scantle slate roof with gabled ends and deep eaves at the front. Brick stacks over the gable ends. Plan: Double depth plan with 2 principal front rooms and a narrow entrance hall at the centre leading to the stairs at the back. The services are in rooms at the back behind the principal rooms. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 3-bay front with original 16-pane sashed with flat red brick arches and jambs and stone sills. Central doorway with C19 glazed and panelled door in a moulded frame, and a C20 glazed porch set on a flight of slate steps. At the rear an original central round-headed stair window; is is a sash with radial glazing bars in the head; and original 3-light casement windows with glazing bars. The left hand gable end has a round attic window with radiating glazing bars. Interior: Only the hall was inspected . It has a deeply moulded ceiling cornice and 6-panel doors. The staircase at the back has stick balusters and a moulded mahogany handrail. A mould plaster panel over the stair window is inscribed "Thomas Edmonds 1833". Kelly's Directory of 1856 lists Thomas Hunt Edmonds of Fore Street, Totnes as a solicitor. He appears to have built Lower Yeatson when upgrading Yeatson House (qv) for his own use.

Listing NGR: SX8091456426