51 And 51A, East Street

ASHBURTON

SX7569 EAST STREET 849-1/10/59 (North side) 10/05/73 Nos.51 AND 51A

GV II

House. Mid or late C18. Solid rendered walls, the front with masonry markings. Slated roofs; front span hipped to right, rear span (at right-angles) gabled. Chimneys (barely visible fron street) behind the front ridge. Double-fronted and double-depth with centre through-passage. Secondary through-passage to right. Kitchen at rear of ground floor to right. Staircase to rear left. 3 storeys. 4 windows wide. Panelled door with flush bottom panels (top panels now glazed); similar panelled reveals, moulded architrave, flat panelled hood on shaped brackets. Secondary door has 6 flush panels; similar panelled reveals; flanking pilasters and entablature. 8-paned sashes in ground storey, 6-paned ones above; all in recessed box-frames. Bracketed eaves-cornice. 1 early window with barred sashes at rear. Original wooden staircase with slender turned balusters and square newels with beaded corners; first flight altered. At first-floor landing the stair screened by 3 rounded arches. Ground-floor right front room has plain C18 dado with fluted rail; C19 grey marble chimneypiece with iron grate bordered with patterned coloured tiles. Left front room has early C19 grey marble chimneypiece with iron grate. On first floor right front room has early C19 grey marble chimneypiece with iron grate. Left front room has fireplace with C18 eared wooden architrave; late C19 iron grate with coloured patterned tiles. Original 4-panelled door on ground floor; two 2-panelled ones on second floor. Original roofs with collars pegged to the faces of the principal rafters.

Listing NGR: SX7577469997