70, East Street

ASHBURTON

SX7570 EAST STREET 849-1/9/73 (South side) No.70

GV II

Former coach-house and stable, now converted to living accommodation for hotel next door at No 68 (qv). Dated 1894. Solid rendered walls, lined to imitate masonry. Slated roof. Rendered chimney on each gable end. Symmetrical, with covered carriage entrance flanked by room at either side. Buildings on all 3 sides of courtyard to rear. 2 storeys, 3 windows wide. In centre, 4-centred arch with moulded spandrels; square hoodmould with sponge-like terminals; patterned iron gates. Outer windows in each storey have mullioned-and-transomed wood casements, the lower lights 2-paned, those above 6-paned. Ground storey windows have square hood-moulds; those in upper storey rise above the eaves where they are finished with gables decorated with projecting braced and bracketed bargeboards. Over the centre arch a small 2-light wood casement window. On the roof above it a blind triangular gable with moulded bargeboards; in its centre the date 1894 and monogram HPT. Whole front flank by raised quoins. Courtyard buildings altered; stone rubble range to left.

Listing NGR: SX7588770034