Original Southern Block, Trinity School

TEIGNMOUTH

SX9374 BUCKERIDGE ROAD 25-1/2/110 (North side) 29/07/83 Original Southern Block, Trinity School

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House, now part of a school. c1830s with some late C19 alterations. Painted stucco, hipped slate roof with rendered stacks to south, east, and west sides. Double-depth plan. Picturesque Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. The west entrance front has a raised surround with a cornice over a semicircular-arched doorcase which has a moulded archivolt, panelled reveals and soffit, and interlacing glazing bars to the fanlight over double half-glazed doors with margin panes. A 6/6-pane sash window to the centre of the 1st floor is flanked on both floors by 8/8-pane sashes, those to the ground floor in raised surrounds, those to the right are glazed but blank and front the south stack. 5 panelled pilasters encompassed by stepped cornice articulate the south garden front which has a coped parapet, cornice and pointed-arched recesses with windows; tall 2-light 4-pane casements to the 1st floor and French windows to the ground floor with pointed-arched fanlights. Late C19 verandah on raised garden terrace. INTERIOR: the ground floor has panelled shutters, some 6-panel doors, reeded cornices with late C19 leaf friezes, late C19 high skirting boards, the right-hand room has a late C19 red marble fireplace with heavy incised blocks to the upper corners and a hob grate. The staircase has stick balusters and a wreathed handrail and curtail step.

Listing NGR: SX9379974020