Hood Manor Rudolf Steiner School

DARTINGTON SX76SE ASHBURTON ROAD 1/110 Hood Manor (Rudolf Steiner School)

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House, now used as a school. Circa 1840 remodelling and enlargement of an earlier house. Rendered stone rubble. Slate roof with coped gable ends with shaped kneelers and with plastered moulded covered eaves. Gable end stacks with short rendered shafts. Plan: Possibly a remodelling of an earlier house. The main front range has a 3-room plan with an entrance hall between the centre and right hand rooms with a staircase at the back. There is a short axial corridor behind the centre room leading to the left end room and the room in the parallel range at the back. The services are in a wing behind the right hand end. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 2:1:2 bay front with large C19 tripartite sashes with glazing bars, the ground floor with hoodmoulds. Tall 2-storey and attic porch to the right of centre with chamfered 4- centred and doorway, 12-pane first floor sash and small attic casement. Later C19 gables dormers. Rear elevations has shorter parallel range and gable-ended wing to left also with coved plaster eaves and sash windows. Interior: Only partly inspected. Moulded plaster services and C19 joinery including panelled doors and window shutters. The staircase is later C19.

Listing NGR: SX7729463277