Number 83 And Attached Walls And Railings

Number 83 is a detached house dating from around 1840. It is constructed of rough Devon limestone ashlar with painted freestone dressings, and has a slate roof with moulded stacks to the gable ends. The plan is of a double-depth design, including a two-storey left wing. The exterior is symmetrical, with a three-window front. The central range is slightly set forward, and features a stepped contour, a cornice, and blocking course. Clasping ashlar pilasters have painted moulded capitals, and there are moulded painted stone architraves and bracketed sills. The first floor has late 19th-century horned 2/2-pane sash windows, flanking a central 20th-century casement. A wide door with a central vertical ridge, flanked by six raised and fielded panels, and a 9-pane overlight with rounded tops and bottoms, is set under a shallow prostyle Doric porch with fluted columns, a triglyph and patera frieze, and a cornice. Flanking are windows with cornices and late 19th-century plate-glass sashes without horns. The interior is uninspected, but believed to contain some decorative plasterwork. Attached to the front corners are low walls with plain, shallow pediments over flat-arched entrances leading to the rear. The wall to the left has a granite step and a wrought-iron gate, while that to the right has a door with two vertical panels. The right return is rendered; the left return is of squared rubblestone. Very low plinths with spearhead railings attached to the column plinths of the porch enclose paved forecourts.