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Summary

A pair of dwellings built circa 1800 to give the appearance of a single, large, symmetrically-fronted house with battlemented parapet.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1104227: GREENHILL AND HIGHER GREENHILL

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX98SE/89
• Old Listed Building Ref (II): 88507

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOUSE (XVIII - 1800 AD to 1800 AD (Between))

Full description

Department of Environment, 1986, Lympstone, 6 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV346729.

Fisher, J., 1999, East Devon Conservation Area Appraisals: Lympstone, 9 (Report - non-specific). SDV346718.

In Burgmann's Hill are several notable Georgian houses. Greenhill is three-storey brick with a battlemented parapet. Other details: Maps.

English Heritage, 2011, Historic Houses Register (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV346128.

A pair of dwellings built to give the appearance of a single, large, symmetrically-fronted house. Circa 1800. Brick in Flemish bond, stuccoed to sides; hipped slate roof concealed behind parapet. Double-depth plan with 2 shallow rear wings; the larger of the 2 houses (Greenhill) ocupies the 3 bays to the right, and is heated by 2 internal end stacks; Higher Greenhill is heated by another pair of stacks that rise above the party wall. The staircases are positioned to the left-hand side of each house (i.e. against the outside wall in Higher Greenhill, and the party wall in Greenhill). 3 storeys and basement.
Front: symmetrical, 5 bays, under castellated parapet. 2nd floor windows with 6-pane hornless sashes; 1st floor windows with 12-pane hornless sashes; all with brick window arches. Ground floor windows, round-headed, the surrounds of 2 orders, the outer order with small stone capitals; 12-pane hornless sashes to each. Central porch, large, with a barrel "vault", and traceried tympanum; doorway surround treated like the ground-floor windows; door with fielded panels and contemporary knocker. Sash windows to basement.
Right-hand side occupied by a 2-storey extension, with parapet, set well back from line of main front with one 6-pane hornless sash window to 1st floor, and a sash window to ground floor, 3 panes up, 6 below. Left-hand side with 20th century porch, the door with coloured glass margin panels.
Rear: all except ground floor is slate hung; two 2nd-floor windows, round-headed with Gothick tracery; tall stairwell window with 12-pane hornless sash to Greenhill; 4- and 16-pane sash windows elsewhere. The rear extensions have been much altered and enlarged in the late 20th century.
Interior: reeded architraves to doors and fire surrounds (except ground floor fire surrounds which have been replaced); panelled doors and internal shutters; fine open well staircases to both houses rise through 3 floors, wreathed rail (that to Greenhill of oak with inlaid walnut) and stick balusters.

Ordnance Survey, 2011, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV346129.

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