Description

PAIGNTON

SX8861 LOWER POLSHAM ROAD
1947-1/4/47 (North side)
10/01/75 No.4
and attached walls and piers to
front garden

GV II

House including garden walls and piers to front garden. c1850.
MATERIALS: Stuccoed and blocked out; natural slate roof,
gabled at ends; end stacks with rendered shafts with
platbands.
PLAN: Double-depth with central staircase, 2-rooms-wide.
EXTERIOR: Slightly set back and sited above the road. 2
storeys. Asymmetrical 3-bay front. Deep boxed eaves. Pretty
late C19/early C20 enclosed vernadah across front with a
lean-to glazed roof and dentil frieze below a bracketed
cornice. Half-glazed outer door in centre with margin panes
and stained glass. 5 bays of verandah to right of door with
similar glazing with margin panes and stained glass. To the
left of the door one bay of the verandah has been absorbed
into the house. The bay alongside is glazed with paired 2-pane
sashes. The left-hand bay is open with a segmental head.
Inside the verandah central half-glazed late C19/early C20
front door with stained glass. High-transomed French window to
right. On the first floor of the front elevation of the house,
a round-headed blind recess with a moulded arch and keyblock,
flanked by C19 twelve-pane sashes. Probably original gabled
attic dormer in centre with a 2-light timber casement, 6 panes
per light.
Local red breccia rubble garden walls with square section
piers with pyramidal caps to front garden.
INTERIOR: Late C19 tiling to verandah floor. Interior
otherwise not inspected but said to be very intact with
original chimney-pieces throughout; stick baluster stair and
original joinery.

Listing NGR: SX8886761257

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489823

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Recommended Books

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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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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)