Park View, Including Front Railings And Gate Piers

Park View is a house built around 1860 for members of the Hamlyn family, who were millowners in Buckfastleigh. The building is constructed of local grey limestone rubble, with the front elevation stuccoed and blocked out, while the left side is slate-hung. It features a slate roof that is gabled at both ends and has glazed ridge tiles, along with end stacks that have rendered shafts with platbands. The house has a double-depth plan with three rooms: two at the rear and one on the left, all opening off a large entrance hall. The staircase to the right of the hall leads down to basement service rooms and up to the first floor, with servants' rooms in the attic. The house overlooks the former Hamlyn wool mill.

The exterior is two storeys at the front and three at the rear, with a symmetrical three-bay front. The central entrance features a recessed six-panel front door, with the upper panels glazed. This door is a 20th-century copy of a 19th-century design that reuses the original door furniture. There are two ground-floor windows with nine over six-pane hornless sashes and three first-floor windows with small twelve-pane sashes.

Inside, the house is grander than the exterior and is very well-preserved. The entrance hall has panelled doorcases with masons' mitres and original doors. A segmental-headed archway leads to a stick baluster staircase with a mahogany handrail, providing access to the first-floor rooms and basement kitchen. The principal rooms retain original chimney-pieces, including one made of white Italian marble with likely Minton tiles in the hearth, and another made of Ashburton marble. The house also features unusually fine plaster cornices. Original gas light fittings, found in the attic, have been converted to electricity.

Historically, a timber porch with reeded columns is missing, but the current owner has a photograph showing it in place. The Hamlyn family had a significant influence on Buckfastleigh in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and were responsible for several buildings in the town. The property includes subsidiary features such as a narrow front area that is railed off with original cast-iron railings topped with spear finials. Tall walls flank the paired gates leading to the former coach yard on the left.