Old Walls Including Outbuilding Adjoining South is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1991. House.
Old Walls Including Outbuilding Adjoining South
- WRENN ID
- knotted-mortar-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1991
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, dating to circa 1720, with extensions added in the 19th century. The walls are constructed from rendered stone rubble with masonry joint lining, and the roof is covered with asbestos tiles. It features end and axial stacks topped with yellow clay louvred pots.
The original house follows a three-room plan, with a stairwell situated between the central and left-hand rooms. The left-hand room served as a parlour and was heated by an end stack. The central room, to the right of the stairwell, was a hall-kitchen, with an axial stack providing heat for both the room itself and a smaller kitchen at the right-hand end, which may have originally been an unheated service room. In the 19th century, a single-storey kitchen wing was built across the front of the right end, connecting the house to a traphouse and/or stables (with a loft above) located on the lower road level.
The south front has two storeys and an attic, and features a 3:1 bay layout. The windows are 12-pane sashes, with the ground floor windows being taller 15-pane sashes, all set in exposed cases. Two central first-floor windows are replacements from the 19th century. A central doorway retains its original fielded three-panel door, now enclosed within a 20th-century glazed outer door and conservatory. The right side of the front elevation is extended by a 19th-century single-storey kitchen wing, with a 12-pane sash on its inner return and a monopitch slate roof. Below the kitchen wing, at a lower road level, stands a traphouse and/or stable, probably dating to the 19th century. It has painted stone rubble walls and a hipped slate roof, with a door on the left and a loft door above a wide entrance to the road at the front, supported by a reinforced steel joist lintel. The rear elevation is inaccessible.
The interior retains much of the original 18th-century joinery. The left-hand ground-floor room features segmentally arched alcoves with fluted architraves, along with a late 19th-century chimneypiece with a moulded plaster segmental arch. A late 19th-century china cupboard is also present, with flanking balusters and carved panel doors. Bathrooms have panelled window shutters and 18th-century fielded three-panel doors, the right-hand door having a 19th-century reeded architrave. Small late 19th-century carved canopies and panels, depicting ram heads, are positioned above the doors. The dog-leg staircase has a chinoiserie balustrade, square newels with moulded caps, and a moulded rail and string. A cupboard door is located under the stairs. On the first floor, there are 18th-century fielded two-panel doors; the left-hand chamber has fielded dado panelling, while the right-hand chamber has panelled cupboard doors. The roof structure consists of straight principals with halved and pegged collars and staggered butt purlins over both the main section and the right-hand end.
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