The Old House

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7466 STATION ROAD 1011-1/7/130 (North side) 06/01/83 No.13 The Old House (Formerly Listed as: STATION ROAD No.13)

GV II

House. c1820s with 1870s alterations and rear kitchen addition. Mass wall construction, stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof half-hipped at left end, gabled at right end; end stacks, cast-iron gutters. Plan: single-depth main range, 2 rooms wide with a central entrance into a passage with a stair. Rear kitchen wing, heated from a right lateral stack and associated with a rear court. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front with rusticated quoins. Deep eaves on paired moulded brackets, fluted eaves frieze with palmettes. Round-headed doorway to left of centre with pilastered doorcase with moulded pilasters with capitals, an open pediment, fluted frieze and panelled reveals, upper panels fielded. 2-leaf panelled door, upper panels fielded; plain fanlight. Secondary doorway to former registry office (installed in late C19) at right hand of front with c1870s 2-leaf half-glazed door with flush panels. Pilastered doorcase, the pilasters reeded to either side of a deep overlight with cornice over. 2 ground-floor 16-pane C19 sashes; 4 similar first-floor windows. Left return (facing courtyard) has renewed small-pane timber sash windows, rear wing also has small-pane timber sashes. INTERIOR: 2-leaf half-glazed c1870s inner door with glazed side lights, deep overlight and 1870s floor tiling. C19 features include 1870s mahogany staircase with bobbin-turned balusters. C19 joinery includes panelled doors. Large fireplace in kitchen with iron lintel. Subsidiary features: tall grey limestone rubble walls to garden. Historical note: in 1879 the house, known as Bridge Cottage, was lived in by John Bovey, registrar of births and deaths, ale and stout agent, vaccination officer and sanitary inspector and insurance agent. Presumably the later C19 alterations were carried out for him. (White's Directory: Devon: London: 1879-).

Listing NGR: SX7413466142