36 And 38, East Street

ASHBURTON

SX7569 EAST STREET 849-1/10/49 (South side) Nos.36 AND 38

GV II

Mirrored pair of houses, No 38 now with shop. Late C19. Solid rendered fronts. Slated roofs with crested ridge-tiles; finial on right gable end (facing Woodland Road). Rendered chimney on each side wall. 3 storeys. Each house 2 windows wide, the windows adjoining the party wall in each house close-set. Adjacent round-arched doorways in centre with pilasters and moulded archivolts, the latter having vermiculated keystones; 4-panelled doors, the 2 bottom panels flush; old knocker at No 38. Outer windows in ground and second storeys take the form of canted bays; dentilled cornice above each storey, the whole finished with a pent-roof. Middle windows in second storey have flanking pilasters supporting a flat triangular pediment spanning both windows. Third storey windows have similar pilasters, the window heads breaking through the boxed eaves-cornice and gabled; bargeboards designed as 4-centred arches, shaped finials. The combined fronts have raised quoins. All windows have sashes, 2-paned where width allows, except that ground storey of bay window at No 38 now has a small-paned shop window. Side wall to Woodland Road has 2-paned sashes. Interiors: not inspected, but entrance passage at No 38 has patterned coloured tiles and a glazed inner door with coloured glass.

Listing NGR: SX7572469942