Gurrington House is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Gurrington House
- WRENN ID
- nether-loft-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gurrington House is an early 19th-century house, believed to have been built for Thomas Abraham around the time of his retirement from the East India Company. A service wing may be of the early 18th century or even earlier, with a 20th-century addition on the north-west side. The main house has rendered solid walls, while the roofs are asbestos-slated, with four sections, swept eaves, and a central leaded flat roof containing a skylight. Chimney stacks are placed asymmetrically to suit the building's plan.
The main house incorporates two large ground-floor rooms on the south-east side, originally connected by an entrance passage. The north-west side features an open-well staircase between two smaller rooms, with the south-western room serving as an entrance hall. There is an L-shaped service wing on the north-west. The house is two stories high.
The garden front (facing north-east) has four windows. All windows are timber sashes with two panes, except those on the ground floor, which have nine panes. The south-east front has five windows, all with six-paned timber sashes. A glazed door, flanked by 20th-century pilasters and a pediment, is centrally placed on the ground floor. The south-west front (the main entrance front) features two windows in the second story and one in the ground story on the left. A round-arched doorway has panelled reveals with reeded borders. The door has three panels below, and glazed upper sections with six panes, topped by a patterned fanlight. A large, mid-19th-century, seven-sided porch with glazed doors and four-paned windows faces the doorway. The service wing's garden front has four irregularly sized and spaced windows; most are late 19th or early 20th-century wood casements, with one 6-paned timber sash. A doorway with a square porch and glazed door is in the left-hand bay. A wood bell turret on the roof has been rebuilt in the 20th century.
Inside, the staircase has cut strings, thin square-section balusters, and a rounded handrail that sweeps up over column newels. The south-west ground-floor room has a ceiling band with a key-pattern, while the north-east room features a grey marble chimney piece with a reeded surround and concentric mouldings; the other chimney pieces are 20th-century replacements. The service wing has doors with raised and fielded ovolo-moulded panels.
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