Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 BARNSFIELD LANE
1011-1/6/42 (North West side)
06/01/83 Barnsfield
(Formerly Listed as:
SILVER STREET
Barnsfield)

GV II

Small gentry house. c1780s with minor alterations of c1900.
Local brown slatestone and grey limestone rubble, front
elevation slate-hung, rear elevation rendered; natural slate
roof; stacks with rendered shafts, cast-iron gutter.
Plan: single-depth plan 3 rooms wide with heated rooms to left
and right, kitchen rear centre with axial passage in front,
stair hall to left of centre. Attached rear block is
coal-house. Victorian service wing to rear was demolished C20.
EXTERIOR: Sited high above the town and associated with a fine
walled garden (qv). 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front
with Edwardian glazed, gabled porch to right of centre with a
door on the right return. Moulded eaves cornice. The front is
a remarkable example of the slatehanging tradition, common in
Ashburton but less common in Buckfastleigh. The large slates
are said to be nailed directly into the masonry. 2 slate
platbands, one at first-floor level and one over the
first-floor windows each have slate drip ledges.
4 first-floor 18-pane late C18 or early C19 hornless sash
windows. Similar ground-floor window to left of porch.
Left-hand ground-floor window is also a 16-pane sash but the
upper light is slightly canted inwards at the top with a
central semi-circle with spoke glazing bars flanked by Gothick
arched panes. Ground-floor window right is an Edwardian French
window with glazing bars and a deep overlight.
The right return has a 2-light attic casement with glazing
bars and a ground-floor one-light casement with a brick arch
and diamond leaded panes. The upper storey of the left return
is slate-hung.
INTERIOR: stick-baluster stair with a ramped mahogany handrail
survives from the earlier phase, along with some joinery,
including skirting boards. Fireplaces in the principal
ground-floor rooms are c1900 - one incorporating glazed
turquoise tiles and a mirror-and-shelves overmantel, the other
carved oak. Plaster cornices, one moulded one decorated,
probably also date from the c1900 phase.
Historical note: the house is said to have been built by a
late C18 vicar of Buckfastleigh for his sisters.

Listing NGR: SX7338166356

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504102

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