Cliffden

TEIGNMOUTH

SX9473 DAWLISH ROAD 25-1/5/118 (East side) 21/06/77 No.20 Cliffden

II

House with entrance to the rear facing extensive grounds. Possibly mid C18, remodelled and enlarged mid and late C19 and C20. Painted stucco, slate roof steeply-pitched and hipped to the original block which has a moulded eaves cornice and late C19 segmental-arched dormer with paired 2/2-pane sash windows to front and rear, double-pitched and parapeted to the C19 parts. Late C19 moulded axial and ridge stacks. PLAN: double-depth plan with long C19 double-depth left wing and C20 forward right wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 7-window range. C20 horned sash windows, some 2/2-panes, some 4/2-panes, mostly with louvred shutters. No door to the original block, a C19 moulded hood on brackets over paired 3-panel doors is to the left of it and the main entrance is in an enclosed prostyle porch with pilasters, cornice and parapet. The left return has a semicircular central bay with a swept canopy to a 1st-floor balcony over a wide curved verandah with triglyph frieze and French windows, mid C19 with some mid C20 alteration. INTERIOR: altered late C19 in flamboyant High Victorian style. The ground floor has oak 6-panel doors, elaborate friezes, one of copper showing mythical beasts, another of plaster; elaborate fireplaces, one in Jacobean style with Ionic columns and scrollwork to the overmantel; the galleried entrance hall has an open-well, open-string staircase with turned balusters and square newels, and a panelled plaster ceiling. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 800).

Listing NGR: SX9438873411