Warfleet House

DARTMOUTH

SX8850 WARFLEET ROAD, Warfleet 673-1/7/302 (West side (off)) 23/10/72 Warfleet House

GV II

House, now divided. c1860-1880. Painted stone rubble with Bathstone dressings; lateral and rear stacks with plastered brick chimneyshafts and some old pots; slate roof with crested ridge tiles. PLAN: Double-depth house of irregular plan; left parlour built as crosswing projecting forward to front of projecting porch and corridor to large stairwell; left rear block with kitchen and services. EXTERIOR: Victorian Gothic style. 2 storeys with attics. Irregular 1:2-window front. Stone windows. Left bay has ground-floor canted bay window, each face with a transomed 2-light arch-headed window with cusped early-Decorated tracery, each with gable over and large stone waterspouts to valleys. First floor has 3-light mullion-and-transom window with trefoil-headed lights, floating cornice above and trefoil light to gable. To ground-floor right, 4 transomed trefoil-headed lancets; floating cornice over with central higher section, and first-floor lancet and 3-light window, all with cranked-arch heads. Similar style to principal rooms on the side walls, including a canted bay at right end. Porch is square at ground-floor level with broaches to canted first-floor corners. Outer wall has pair of large square-headed windows to entrance lobby, the only windows to retain leaded glass. Above a quatrefoil panel containing a shield. Lancets to the corners. Front doorway a chamfered cranked arch with moulded surround containing a top-glazed door with margin glazing and bottom panels carved with C17-style ornament including linenfold, tracery and cartouches. Polychrome tiles in front of doorway. Porch has squat spire with cast-iron finial. Other roofs have gables with plain eaves. Rear blocks contain a variety of mostly C19 windows including casements and some sashes with glazing bars. INTERIOR: Only partially inspected. Good entrance lobby lined with C17-style oak panelling enriched with linenfold, cartouches and tracery, with scrolled vines carved round windows. Left parlour with ornate marble chimneypiece. Large open-well stair with relatively plain style. Right-hand front room has large C17-style beams, but chimneypiece here introduced. Adjacent billiard room now the separate Warfleet Lodge (qv).

Listing NGR: SX8809450447