Ashprington Nursing Home

ASHPRINGTON SX85NW Stancombe Linhays 6/12 (Formerly The Old Rectory) 18.10.90

GV II

Rectory converted into a nursing home. Late C18 or early C19, converted into a nursing home in circa 1985. Rendered stone rubble, rear wing is said to be built of cob. Slate hipped roof of 2 spans. Stacks in side walls with red brick shafts. Plan: Double depth plan with 2 principal front rooms and a central entrance hall leading to a stairhall at the back of the right hand side; this rear range may be earlier. In circa 1985 the house was converted into a nursing home, a single storey flat roofed addition was built on the right hand side in the angle with the rear wing, but the plan of the main house has been largely retained. External: Symmetrical 3 bay front . Original tripartite sashes with glazing bars diminishing in height towards the top, the ground floor have 12 panes flanked by 4 pane sashes, the first floor 9 panes flanked by 3 panes and the top floor are actually casements of 6 panes flanked by 2 panes. Good central doorway with moulded architrave with fielded panel reveals and an entablature with fluted frieze and dentilled cornice which is broken forward at either end where is is supported on console brackets. The symmetrical 3 window rear elevation has 2-light sashes with glazing bars and central first floor round-headed stair window with original sash with radial glazing bars. The service wing on the right hand side at the rear is 2 storeys with a hipped roof and a lower gable-ended roof at the rear; C19 2 and 3-light casement windows with glazing bars. C20 single storey addition in the angle at the front with a flat roof. Interior: Narrow entrance hall with a segmented arch to the stairwell at the rear which has an open-well (almost a dog-leg) staircase with stick baluster and moulded handrail ramped up to turned column newels and an open string with scroll tread ends. Much of the original joinery has been replaced but the doorcases seem to be largely intact. The left hand front room has a later C19 plaster cornice and a circa late C19 or early C20 Georgian style chimneypiece. The other rooms have been altered.

Listing NGR: SX8183457062