Woodlands

KENN SX 98 SW

5/148 Woodlands

• II

House, used as nursing home. Remodelled in 1836 by Anthony Salvin for William Ley, cost £3,100 (information from Dr Jill Allibone). Stone rubble with red sandstone dressings, rear elevation partly shingle-hung in the late C20. Asbestos slate roof, gabled at ends and gabled to the front at the right, behind parapets ; projecting left end stack with low stone shaft, axial stack with similar shaft to right of centre ; projecting right end stack with set-offs, Plan: Approximately T plan : the main block rectangular with a central entrance into a heated stair hall with a short projection to the front at the right end. Salvin is said to have added the hall, dining room and drawing room on the north side, adding the oak staircase and 2 bedrooms. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 7 bay north front with regular fenestration, a central 2 storey porch and the 2 right-hand bays projecting to the front with a 2 storey canted bay window. Red sandstone cornice below parapet, plinth and jambs and lintels to the windows. The parapet rises in the centre of the porch with decayed armorial bearings of the ley family. Front door with hollow-chamfered Tudor arched doorframe; pilasters to left and right of the porch rising to a red sandstone platband at first floor level. Fenestration of plate glass 2-pane sashes, the ground floor windows transomed. The right return has 2 C20 French windows on the ground floor and first floor sashes. Interior: Not thoroughly inspected. C19 Tudor stair in stair hall. Salvin built Mamhead House in Mamhead parish, a few miles to the north east, in 1828- 33 for Sir Ralph Newman, bart. (qv Dawlish College). '

Listing NGR: SX9221985435