Southdown House

Southdown House is a house dating from the mid-19th century, located on the north side of East Street, Bovey Tracey. It was likely built with solid stone walls, now rendered, and has a slate roof. The house has a plan consisting of a main block, possibly originally two rooms deep, and a long, narrow wing to the rear. A lower section on the east side may have been designed as a secondary entrance.

The main block is two storeys high, with a garret. It has three windows wide, with a fourth window in the lower eastern section. The central bay of the main block slightly projects forward and rises an additional storey above eaves level, featuring a gable with traceried bargeboards. Windows in the ground and second storeys have raised imitation stone surrounds and wooden mullioned-and-transomed casements. The lower sections of the windows have two panes each, while those on the outer sides are of three lights. The centre window of the second storey is of two lights. The front door, in the centre of the ground floor, has two long panels with a narrow panel at the top, now glazed, with a pointed-head fanlight above. A large, gabled timber entrance porch has an open truss of curved bracing and swept, overhanging eaves supported by brackets. A pointed-head window with a raised surround is set within the gable projection on the upper level. Dormer windows with bargeboards and overhanging eaves flank the projection; these have 20th-century glazing. A window in the lower right-hand section of the building has a triangular head, now with intersecting, diagonally-set glazing-bars, and may have originally been a doorway. An upper-floor window in a steep gable interrupting the eaves line is a two-light casement with two panes per light, each with a triangular head and a diamond-shaped pane in the window head. Original cast-iron garden railings and a gate, featuring lily heads on the uprights, are also included in the listing. The interior of the house was not inspected.