Description

UPOTTERY ST 10 NE 6/97 Culverwell - - II House, former keeper's cottage. Circa 1880-90. Local stone and flint rubble with Bathstone ashlar dressings; stone rubble stacks with Bathstone ashlar chimneyshafts; slate roof. Plan: basically an L-plan building facing south-east. The left room, the parlour, is articulated as a crosswing projecting backwards and very slightly forward and it has an outer lateral stack. The rest of the front block contains a central entrance hall and a left room with end stack which is shared by the kitchen behind in a lean- to in the angle of the 2 wings. The main house is 2 storeys. Exterior: deliberately asymmetrical 2:1-window front of timber mullion-and-transom windows. The windows have ashlar quoins and chamfered reveals. The first floor windows are gabled half dormers with shaped kneelers and slate coping (there are others on the other sides). The front doorway is central; it is a 2-centred arch containing the original plank door hung on strap hinges with fleur-de-lys finials and there is a gabled porch in front with a 2-centred arch outer arch. The main roofs are hipped. Interior not inspected but is said to contain original joinery detail. Culverwell is one of several attractive C19 buildings in Upottery built on the Sidmouth Estate.

Listing NGR: ST1890107602

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