30, West Street

ASHBURTON

SX7569 WEST STREET 849-1/10/198 (North side) 07/08/51 No.30 Mapleton House

GV II

House. Late C18. Solid rendered ground storey; painted slate-hung (almost certainly timber-framed) upper storeys. Slated roof. Rendered chimney on each gable end. 2 rooms wide and 2 rooms deep with off-centre through-passage creating 2 very narrow rooms to right. Stair compartment with open-well stair between front and back rooms. Kitchen to rear left. 3 storeys. 3 windows wide. Doorway has flanking pilasters and entablature, the frieze breaking forward above the pilasters and decorated with a small flower. 6-panelled door with knocker, the 2 bottom panels flush; matching panelled reveals, fanlight with interlacing Gothic glazing-bars. Triple-sashed window at either side; 6 panes in centre, 2 outside. 6-paned sashes in moulded flush frames above. Rusticated pilaster-strip down whole left side of front and down right side of ground storey. Moulded band above ground storey. Top entablature with moulded dentilled cornice; frieze with flutings and paterae. Interior: wood stair with cut strings, shaped step-ends, thin square balusters, handrail ramped up over column-newels. Octagonal skylight rebuilt in period style c1989. 6-panelled doors. Some original chimneypieces, including large kitchen fireplace with moulded surround.

Listing NGR: SX7548469810