Morocco House

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 BAYARDS COVE 673-1/8/31 (West side) 14/09/49 No.5 Morocco House

GV II

House; Cottage Hospital from 1887-1894. Probably c1820-30 with older core. Plastered stone rubble, maybe brick dressings; right end stacks with rendered brick chimneyshafts and old pots; slate roof. PLAN: One room wide and 2 rooms deep. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window front. Plaster is lightly blocked out as ashlar. Original segmental arch-headed sash windows with margin glazing bars. First-floor windows are taller and onto full-width ornamental cast-iron balcony featuring cross bars enriched with ornate crosses. Doorway to left with segmental arch head and unusual C19 timber doorcase - a curious design with frame of diagonal grooves under an oval medallion with bat-wing carving each side under a flat hood. Reveals and segmental-headed door enriched with a studded pattern and door has top lights. Deep eaves carried on shaped timber brackets which include a timber frieze carved to look like drapery threaded through the brackets. Hipped roof with front segmental dormer containing another sash window with margin glazing. INTERIOR: Not inspected but C19 joinery and other features reported by the owner. (Freeman, Ray: Dartmouth and its Neighbours: Phillimore: 1990-: PL.99; P.163).

Listing NGR: SX8783151020