Greylands Including Gate Piers On Street Frontage

ASHBURTON

SX7569 EAST STREET 849-1/10/56 (South side) 10/05/73 Nos.48 AND 48A Greylands including gate piers on street frontage (Formerly Listed as: EAST STREET (South side) Nos.48-54 (Even) Greylands (48))

GV II

Also known as: Nos.48 AND 48A Sands School EAST STREET. House, now school. Late C18 or early C19, left side and rear remodelled in mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slated roof. 2 chimneys with bracketed caps on front range. Double-depth, apparently of 2 different builds. Entrance on left side from open driveway. No 48A (to right) appears to have been a separate house originally. No 48 is 3-storeyed with 2-window front, the windows set well over to the right. Sash windows in concealed frames: 8 over 8 panes in ground storey, 6 over 6 panes in second storey, 3 over 6 panes in third storey. Shallow bracketed eaves-cornice. No 48A is 2-storeyed with irregular 3-window front. Plank door, off-centre to right. 2 small wood casements in ground storey and 1 to left of upper storey. To right of upper storey 2 sash windows, each sash 2-paned. Front finished with raised band and parapet. To left of No 48 is a pair of rendered panelled gate piers with stone ball-finials. To right of them, in a short stretch of wall, is a 4-panelled door, the 2 lower panels flush. Side wall of No 48 to left has glazed door with margin-panes containing coloured glass; panelled reveals, cornice on consoles. Windows in upper storey round-headed with enriched archivolts; 3 have 2-paned sashes, 1 a 2-light wood casement with 2 panes per light. Rear elevation, fronting garden, has upper storey windows with enriched bracketed sills and, in the second storey, enriched cornices on consoles. Deep bracketed eaves-cornice. 2 storeyed rear of No 48A projects slightly. 8-paned sash window in ground storey. French window with margin-panes and patterned tramsom-light in upper storey; enriched cornice on consoles. In front of it a balcony with remains of mid C19 patterned iron railing. Deep bracketed eaves-cornice. Interior: not inspected, but entrance hall seen to have mid C19 plasterwork, including an enriched domed ceiling. Geometrical stair with thin square balusters, the balustrade voluted at the foot; skylight.

Listing NGR: SX7577569967