Description

ASHBURTON

SX7569 EAST STREET
849-1/10/59 (North side)
10/05/73 Nos.51 AND 51A

GV II

House. Mid or late C18. Solid rendered walls, the front with
masonry markings. Slated roofs; front span hipped to right,
rear span (at right-angles) gabled. Chimneys (barely visible
fron street) behind the front ridge. Double-fronted and
double-depth with centre through-passage. Secondary
through-passage to right. Kitchen at rear of ground floor to
right. Staircase to rear left. 3 storeys. 4 windows wide.
Panelled door with flush bottom panels (top panels now
glazed); similar panelled reveals, moulded architrave, flat
panelled hood on shaped brackets. Secondary door has 6 flush
panels; similar panelled reveals; flanking pilasters and
entablature. 8-paned sashes in ground storey, 6-paned ones
above; all in recessed box-frames. Bracketed eaves-cornice. 1
early window with barred sashes at rear. Original wooden
staircase with slender turned balusters and square newels with
beaded corners; first flight altered. At first-floor landing
the stair screened by 3 rounded arches. Ground-floor right
front room has plain C18 dado with fluted rail; C19 grey
marble chimneypiece with iron grate bordered with patterned
coloured tiles. Left front room has early C19 grey marble
chimneypiece with iron grate. On first floor right front room
has early C19 grey marble chimneypiece with iron grate. Left
front room has fireplace with C18 eared wooden architrave;
late C19 iron grate with coloured patterned tiles. Original
4-panelled door on ground floor; two 2-panelled ones on second
floor. Original roofs with collars pegged to the faces of the
principal rafters.

Listing NGR: SX7577469997

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496742

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)