No 115 Including Garden Railings And Footbridge

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 PLYMOUTH ROAD 1011-1/6/116 (North West side) 06/01/83 No.115 including garden railings and footbridge (Formerly Listed as: PLYMOUTH ROAD Nos.114 AND 115 Woodview (114))

GV II

House, including garden railings, gate and footbridge across the town ditch. c1800, possibly with an earlier core as the owner believes deeds in his possession date back to the C18. Colourwashed, stuccoed and blocked out; natural slate roof, gabled at ends; stacks with rendered shafts and one old terra-cotta chimney pot with ornamental glazed bands. Cast-iron gutter stamped with lions' heads. Plan: main block single depth, 2 rooms wide; service rooms to rear under M-plan roof. The house, is set back behind the town mill leat running along the NW side of the Plymouth Road with a small bridge across the ditch. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2-window front with original, central, recessed 6-panel front door, the upper panels fielded with a pretty overlight with geometrical glazing bars; reeded doorcase. 2 original ground-floor 12-pane sashes with old glass, and coloured glass in the margin panes. 2 original first-floor 16-pane sashes with old glass. Verandah across front supported on C20 chamfered timber posts with curving brackets; corrugated-iron tent roof. INTERIOR: complete with original joinery, including shutters, doors, doorcases and chimneypieces; stick balustrade to landing. Subsidiary features: railings to front of house have square-section vertical and spear finials. Unusually attractive cast- and wrought-iron garden gate with square section verticals with spear finials. Below the middle rail curved wrought scrolls are interspersed with twisted ornament. Stone and iron bridge over leat is paved with 2 large slate slabs and flanked by plain railings.

Listing NGR: SX7384466034