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Summary

An early 19th century two storey country house with an early 20th century extension.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1215392: SANDWELL

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX75NE/40
• Old Listed Building Ref (II)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• COUNTRY HOUSE (Built, XVIII to XIX - 1800 AD (Between) to 1850 AD (Between))

Full description

Department of Environment, 1956, Totnes Rural District, 21 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV177635.

An early 19th century country house with plastered walls and hipped slate roof. Brick stacks, some plastered. Deep eaves. 7-window front. Doric pillared porch.

Griffith, F. M., 1983, Sandwell Dovecote (Ground Photograph). SDV340275.

Site visit 8th June 1983. Apparently largely unaltered from the DoE description.

Ordnance Survey, 2025, Mastermap 2025 (Cartographic). SDV366286.

Historic England, 2025, National Heritage List for England 2025, 1215392 (National Heritage List for England). SDV366287.

Country house. Circa 1830 with circa early C20 extension. Stuccoed stone rubble, roughcast at rear. Welsh slate low-pitched hipped roof with paired brackets to deep eaves soffit. Lead rolls to hips. Rendered chimney stacks. Red brick stack to circa early C20 extension. Plan: Square plan with central entrance and stair hall with principal rooms either side and service rooms to rear. Early C20 right hand (east) addition extending south front elevation in similar style. Exterior: 2 storeys. South front 2:1:2 bays of original house with centre bay slightly advanced, the eaves breaking forward with hipped roof above. Central porch with 2 pairs of Tuscan columns and rebuilt timber entablature, panelled and glazed double doors and panelled reveals. All original sash windows with glazing bars, the ground storey tall 15-pane sashes with low sills, first storey left and right 12-pane sashes and first storey centre wider 16-pane sash. Band at first floor level continued to right over early C20 extension which is built in same style and has continuous bracketed eaves and sash windows with glazing bars, centre ground floor window is garden casement. West elevation is symmetrical 1:2:1 bays, left and right advanced slightly, first floor 12-pane sashes, ground floor right 15-pane sash, the other ground storey windows are garden casements. Small service wing adjoining north east, square on plan with pyramid slate roof and 4 tiers of pigeon holes on first storey with slate flint ledges. On ground storey, probably reused, for-light ovolo-moulded timber mullion window with circa early C19 casements with glazing bars. Linked to rear of east side by short range with lower roof. Interior: The early C19 interior is largely intact. Central stair hall has geometric staircase at rear in rounded stairwell with oval lantern. The stair case has stick balusters and wreathed handrail. Moulded plaster cornice to stairwell and hall. Most of the original joinery survives including panelled doors and moulded door architraves, panelled window shutters and wainscoting. Moulded plaster cornices and ceiling centrepieces. Rear (north west) room has good moulded cornice with acanthus and guilloche frieze and wooden chimneypiece with urns and festoons. The early C20 east wing has early C20 chimneypiece with niches flanked by Ionic pilasters.
Date first listed: 9th February 1961

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