Description

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/06/2018.

SX 68 NE
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CHAGFORD
Coach house or garage approximately 9 metres north west of Holystreet Mill

(Formerly listed as Coach house or garage approximately 9 metres north-west of Holystreet Manor)

GV
II
Coach house or garage with chauffeur's accommodation above.1913-14. Granite rubble tending to courses with granite ashlar detail; the upper floor is slate hung; granite stacks with granite ashlar chimney shafts; slate roofs.

Plan: the building faces east built across and terraced into the hillslope. It is a three-bay coach house or garage with self-contained accommodation above. There are three rooms, the outer ones with projecting end stacks. It is flanked each end by small single storey blocks; the left one a pair of stores, the right one another coach house.

Exterior: the main block has a symmetrical three-bay front. The coach sheds are set behind an arcade of granite ashlar segmental-headed arches with raking buttresses each end. The three doorways behind have large sliding doors. The cottage's three windows are timber casements, four lights flanking a three-light window. Above an M-shaped gabled front with two large gables and small central gable with a painted clockface under the central gable. The main roof behind is gable-ended. The right end of the coach house has a two-light granite mullion-and-transom window. Set back from the front the left-hand stones has three single light windows with doors between and the right-hand coach house has two mullioned windows. The first floor accommodation has a door from the rear terrace.

Interior has plain carpentry detail.

The coach house, stables (q.v.) and mill (q.v.) form an attractive group of listed buildings associated with Holystreet Mill (q.v.), a group set in an exceptionally picturesque valley.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26595561

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Recommended Books

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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)