Description

ASHBURTON

SX77SW DRUID
849-1/1/233 Druid House including stable about
10/05/73 10m NW
(Formerly Listed as:
DRUID ROAD
Druid House)

GV II

Large house and stable. House looks early C19, but may be a
remodelling of an earlier building; minor additions, including
stable, in late C19 (possibly 1892). House has solid rendered
walls, the front lined to imitate masonry. Stable of stone
rubble with red-brick dressings. Slated roofs. Centre block of
house has rendered chimney on each gable end; other rendered
chimneys at rear. House presents a regular appearance to SE,
with centre block flanked by short wings, that to right
containing the front door; left wing extended in late C19.
Rear part irregular, probably the result of one or more
additions. Stable block at rear of narrow courtyard. House
2-storeyed with garrets; wings 1-storeyed. Centre block 2
windows wide; original wings have 1 opening each, that to left
with 1-window extension. Centre block has plain triple-sashed
windows; deep eaves-cornice with paired brackets; 2 gabled
dormers with 2-light wood casements and bargeboards. Wings
have rusticated flanking pilasters; their fronts rise to a
parapet which conceals the roof. French window in left wing;
5-panelled door with pilasters and entablature in right wing.
Extension to left wing has overhanging eaves; sash-window with
margin-panes. Gable-end to left has shaped bargeboards with
fleur-de-lys decoration and finial; inset in wall-face a
coat-of-arms with date 1892. Side wall of right wing has
2-light granite-mullioned window (probably late C19) with
glazing bars forming Gothic arches; coloured glass. Stone
mounting-block set into rear wall. Stable has wood casement
windows with glazing bars. Wood bell-turret.

Listing NGR: SX7441571124

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496722

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)