Description

LYDFORD
SX 67 SW
15/19 Prince Hall
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- II

Small country house used as hotel. Circa 1780-90. Plastered stone walls. Slate
roof with overhanging sprocketted eaves, hipped to left end and gabled to wing. 3
rendered stacks, one at left-hand end, one axial to main range and one at right-hand
end of wing.
Plan: Main range with cross-wing at right-hand end. Main range has entrance hall
running longitudinally along the entrance front with a small room at its right end.
Behind the hall, facing the garden, are two principal rooms. The cross wing to the
left has a further principal room facing the garden and service rooms at the rear.
The staircase is at the front of the entrance hall.
Exterior: 2 storeys with attic. Asymmetrical 4:2 window garden front with slightly
projecting wing to right. 12-pane hornless sashes, some of which may be original;
to the ground floor of the main range are C20 4-pane sashes. Roundheaded window on
2nd floor of wing. Rear entrance front has wing projecting to the left with
original tall roundheaded stair window. C20 porch at centre of main range with
probably original double 6-panelled doors. Inside door to house has fanlight above.
Interior: 2 of the principal rooms have marble chimneypieces with tapering
octagonal columns, that in the left-hand end room has its original grate with square
opening. This room has a decorative cornice and ceiling band. The central room has
a plain moulded band and cornice. The original staircase survives - open string
with turned balusters and turned and moulded newels with finials. Other original
joinery such as 6-panelled doors and panelled shutters survive.
Outside, at the left-hand end of the-house on the entrance side, is a rectangular
cobbled courtyard bounded on 3 sides by a tall crenellated wall, opposite to the
house is a former coach house, now roofless.
Prince Hall is one of the 17 Ancient Tenements of the Forest of Dartmoor first
mentioned in documents in 1521. In 1780 a Mr Gullet bought the site and began
improvements to the buildings which were completed by Francis Buller a distinguished
lawyer and judge when he bought the property in the late 1780s. A print of 1797
depicts the house in a similar form to that in which it survives.
Source : W Crossing - "A Hundred Years on Dartmoor" ; Dartmoor : A New study -
Enclosure and the Improvers - J S Cocks.

Listing NGR: SX6255874198

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26611874

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)