Park View, Including Front Railings And Gate Piers

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366SE CHAPEL STREET 1011-1/6/48 (North side) No.18 Park View, including front railings and gate piers

GV II

House including front railings. c1860. Built for members of the Hamlyn family, millowners in Buckfastleigh. Local grey limestone rubble, front elevation stuccoed and blocked out, left return slate-hung; slate roof, gabled at ends, glazed ridge tiles; end stacks with rendered shafts with platbands. Plan: double-depth plan with 3 rooms, 2 to the rear and one to the left, opening off a large entrance hall. To the right of the hall the stair leads down to basement service rooms and up to first floor; servants' rooms in attic. Overlooks the former Hamlyn wool mill. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys at the front, 3 to rear. Symmetrical 3-bay front. Central recessed 6-panel front door, upper panels glazed, C20 copy of a C19 door, reusing original door furniture. 2 ground-floor 9 over 6-pane hornless sashes, 3 first-floor small 12-pane sashes. INTERIOR: grander than the exterior and very well-preserved. Panelled doorcases with masons' mitres and original doors open off entrance hall. Segmental-headed archway to stick baluster stair with mahogany handrail to first-floor rooms and basement kitchen. Principal rooms retain original chimney-pieces, one white Italian marble with probably Minton tiles to the hearth, one Ashburton marble chimney-piece. Unusually fine plaster cornices. Original gas light fittings, found in attic, have been converted to electricity. Historical note: timber porch with reeded columns missing but present owner has photograph showing it in situ. The Hamlyn family dominated Buckfastleigh in the late C19 and early C20 and were responsible for a number of buildings in the town. Subsidiary features: narrow front area railed off with original cast-iron railings with spear finials. Tall walls flank paired gates to former coach yard on left.

Listing NGR: SX7368166129