Description

BLACKAWTON
Wadstray House
SX85SW
2/17
26.1.67 II

Small country house. Circa 1800, extended in circa early C20. Rendered
stone. Slate hipped roof with modillion eaves cornice. Tall rendered stack
to left and lateral stacks at rear.
Plan: Double depth plan with 2 principal rooms at the front and a central
entrance hall room. The third principal room is situated behind the right
hand room and the kitchen is behind the stair well. In circa early C20 a 1-
room plan extension was built on the left side of the house and a verandah
added across the front.
Exterior: 2 storeys, 1:3 window south front. The left hand 1 window bay is
the circa early C20 addition. The symmetrical 3 windows to the right has 2
2-storey bows of 3-lights with bowed sashes with glazing bars, the first
floor sashes have been replaced and the ground floor central sashes of each
bow replaced by a French window. The central first floor sash is also a C20
replacement. Central doorway has a good arcades with Tuscan engaged columns
and open pediment with semi-circular traceried fanlight and panelled
reveals; the glazed door is C20. The later extension to the left has a
French window on the ground floor and 12-pane sash above. Across the whole
of the front a circa early C20 verandah on wooden posts. Rear elevation and
sides were not inspected.
Interior: Most of the original joinery appears to be intact including
panelled doors etc. and the moulded plaster cornices remain in most of the
rooms and hall. In the hall the floor is paved in limestone. The hall has
an elliptical arch and screen with semi-circular traceried fanlight. The
open well staircase has a moulded mahogany handrail ramped up to column
newels and wreathed over the curtail newel, the open string has cut tread
ends. The front right hand room has a moulded cornice and carved wooden
chimneypiece with console brackets - possibly on C20 replacement. The
smaller front left hand room has a C20 chimneypiece and is lined in late C2O
bookshelves but the moulded cornice survives behind. The rear right hand
room has a chimneypiece with an eared architrave an dentilled cornice.

Listing NGR: SX8259951924

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26401816

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)