Description

SS 80 SW CREDITON HAMLETS

3/59 Chapel Downs Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Early C18 with mid C19 alterations. Plastered rubble or brick; exposed brick chimney shafts; slate roof. House faces south east with 3-room, double- depth, central staircase plan. Projecting end stacks. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3- window front. Central 4-panel door, the upper panels glazed, with panelled reveals projecting into Doric doorcase which has fluted columns and an entablature with triglyths, metopes and the soffit of the cornice with mutules containing drops. Flanking 25-pane hornless sash windows (10 over 15 panes) and similar on first floor flanking central 20-pane sash. Eaves cornice with shaped brackets. Unusual roof form: high hipped roof extended on lime-plane to gables at lower level behind tall brick chimney stack either side. The same alterations could explain why eaves cornice is narrower than front. Of this period are the sashes and doorcase also. Smaller sashes and casements to rear, most with glazing bars. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS8193200688

External Links

• Wikidata Q26399894

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6