Church Style

This is a house dating to the early 19th century, with a north range added in the mid to late 19th century. It has solid, rendered walls, likely of stone, and asbestos-slated roofs. There are two rebuilt rendered chimneystacks to the left and right of the centre gable. The house has a double-depth plan with the main entrance on the south-east side.

The south-east and south-west fronts are designed in a Tudor style, featuring hood moulds over the windows and decorative bargeboards to the gables. The rear of the house is a standard, plain early 19th-century design. The older part of the south-west front, to the right, is two windows wide, with the left-hand window set within a gabled projection featuring open tracery bargeboards with a pendant at the apex. A canted bay window with a pent roof is located in the ground storey of this projection, appearing in an early drawing of the house but without its later windows. These windows consist of French windows in the centre, each leaf divided into three panes, with a two-light fanlight above. The side windows are composed of two panes with a transom light at the top. The second-storey window is original, containing two mullioned-and-transomed lights under a straight hood-mould. A similar window is located to the right in the second storey, and another similar window is found on the ground storey below it, though this ground-storey window has French windows that may be original, as indicated by an early drawing showing a single-storeyed lattice-work verandah against this section of the house. To the left of this front is a later addition, one window wide, under a gable with shaped bargeboards, featuring a 20th-century bay window rising through two storeys. The south-east front has been virtually unaltered, except for the blocking of three windows. This front is three windows wide, with the left-hand window set in the projecting gable-end of the south-east range, finished with open-traceried bargeboards. All windows have straight hood-moulds, with the middle second-storey window and the right-hand ground-storey window featuring two lights with wood mullions and transoms. The left-hand window on each storey, and the right-hand window in the second storey, are blind. The doorway, off-centre to the left, is sheltered by an elegant gabled wood porch in Tudor style. Slender paired shafts with open quatrefoil panels support a four-centred arch with open tracery above, capped by decorated bargeboards and a finial. The door is studded and panelled in the lower part, with 20th-century glazing above. A string course defines the storey break on the right-hand side of the front. The interior was not inspected. The house is documented in the Annie Croker sketchbook, 1853 (Devon Record Office, 2160A add.7/PZ3, p.7).