Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7466 DART BRIDGE ROAD
1011-1/7/25 (East side)
06/01/83 Dart Bridge Manor

GV II

Farmhouse, now used as guest house. Probably C16 or earlier
with early C19 alterations and extensive late C20 renovations
and changes. Local grey limestone rubble rear elevation
stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof with sprocketed eaves,
half-hipped at right end, gabled at left end; end and rear
lateral stacks with rendered shafts and moulded cornices.
Plan: formerly a 3-room and through-passage plan, lower end to
the right. C19 staircase built in passage, partition between 2
left-hand rooms removed; first-floor partitions altered and
new roof put on in late C20. Moulded arches on the front wall,
formerly concealed behind render, are probably C16 or earlier
in date.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front. Plank and
cover strip front door to right of centre. To left of the
door, 2 arches in the masonry, above later windows, are of
interest. One is moulded volcanic trap, the other, possibly
the remains of a doorway, is chamfered. 3 ground-floor windows
to left of the door, one to right where there is also evidence
of a blocked doorway to the cross passage and a blocked
window.
First floor has three C17 two-light mullioned windows, the 2
to the left preserving original diamond-leaded panes. 2-light
stair window with geometric leaded panes. 4 hipped roof
dormers with C20 casements. Rear elevation, facing garden,
preserves more of a C19 appearance, the left end is a 3-bay
arrangement with a somewhat altered flat-roofed porch with
Chinese Chippendale panels and 2 ground and 3 first-floor
casements with glazing bars. To the right a C20 service door
to the kitchen and one first-floor casement; 4 flat-roofed C20
dormer windows.
INTERIOR: very altered with new timber and partitions. Axial
ceiling beams flanking the cross passage have step nick and
step stops. C19 stick baluster stair; some C19 joinery. Roof
timbers said to have been replaced in the late C19, one
principal rafter showing upstairs appears to be C17 or C18.

Listing NGR: SX7444966643

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505115

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (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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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)