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Ringslade and Attached Walls Railings Gate Piers and Outbuildings

A Grade II Listed Building in Newton Abbot, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.5408 / 50°32'26"N

Longitude: -3.6268 / 3°37'36"W

OS Eastings: 284820

OS Northings: 72487

OS Grid: SX848724

Mapcode National: GBR QP.Z9W5

Mapcode Global: FRA 379M.LX9

Plus Code: 9C2RG9RF+87

Entry Name: Ringslade and Attached Walls Railings Gate Piers and Outbuildings

Listing Date: 21 June 1977

Last Amended: 11 December 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1256801

English Heritage Legacy ID: 464517

ID on this website: 101256801

Location: Mile End, Teignbridge, Devon, TQ12

County: Devon

District: Teignbridge

Civil Parish: Newton Abbot

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Highweek All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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Description



NEWTON ABBOT

SX8472 RINGSLADE ROAD
1012-1/5/114 (East side)
21/06/77 Ringslade and attached walls,
railings, gate piers and
outbuildings
(Formerly Listed as:
RINGSLADE ROAD
Ringslade and forecourt railings,
gatepiers and attached outbuildings)

II

Farmhouse. C16/C17, altered c1730, c1800 and c1900.
MATERIALS: painted roughcast with C20 timber-frame decoration
to the porch, slate roof with external stacks to the left and
rear, one ridge stack to the inside right and one at the
junction of the porch.
PLAN: 3-bay through-passage plan with rear lateral stack to
central hall, left end and right axial stacks; C19 projecting
left-of-centre 2-storey porch, large single-storey rear
outshut probably early C19, with a cob wall supporting a
corrugated-iron roof, and a C19 L-plan rear left wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5-window range. The bay to the right is
thought to have been a farm building originally, converted to
accommodation early C18. C19 4/4-pane and 6/6-pane sashes; C20
4-light casements to ground floor. C19 porch with late C19
mock timber-framing to first floor.
C19 rear left wing is rendered to front block, the rear
single-storey block of stone rubble and slate making an L-plan
which bounds part of the rear yard.
INTERIOR: kitchen to left has granite-lined jambs and lintel
with stopped ovolo moulding to an open fire to left and Devon
limestone slab floor; to rear is C18 door of 2 wide planks to
a cupboard under a straight staircase against rear wall.
The passage, with cream limestone floor, spans the front
between the two end rooms then turns to the rear to form the
through passage.
To rear wall of the central room is a late C19 red and black
marble fireplace with an external stack, former fireplace to
the right-hand internal wall is blocked.
The features of the right-hand room are early C18. The
fireplace backing onto the blocked fire of the central room is
of pine with an eared architrave and dentil cornice. In the
thickness of the front wall is a semicircular-plan shelved
recess with moulded architrave. A glazed C20 door to the right
return is flanked by 6/6-pane sash windows with raised and

fielded panels to the shutters.
The main early C19 staircase to the rear right of the passage
is approached through a semi-elliptical arch, the head-height
of the low ceiling was increased by raising the floor of the
landing above by 2 steps; the underside is plastered as a
quarter dome.
The staircase is open-well and open-string with a wreathed
rail and curtail step. The C17 first-floor 4-light stair
window has timber mullions and C19 or C20 leading.
At the top left of the stairs is a small closet with a C18
door L-H hinges and raised and fielded panels; to each return
of the closet is a small glazed window of 6 panes with early
C19 lamb's tongue glazing bars.
Central first-floor room has an early C18 fireplace with an
eared architrave and a hob grate, the space between them is
filled with fine blue-and-white miolica tiles depicting
biblical scenes in the Chinese style.
Room to the first-floor right has cupboard with C18 L-H hinges
in the thickness of the wall directly above the recess to the
ground-floor room.
The first floor of the porch has c1900 fireplaces backing onto
the ridge stack.
The house was re-roofed in C19 and C20 with softwood trusses.
In the C19 rear wing is a pump and stone sink, an open fire
with an iron support to a segmental arch and space for a
former copper.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to the left front (north west)
corner and extending forward is a 5-bay rubblestone C18 barn
with a hipped slate roof:the front entrance has a high wide
segmental arch over wide-planked double doors with chamfered
rails; smaller door to the rear is of 2 wide planks joined on
the outside by chamfered vertical stiles and on the inside by
chamfered rails with a massive iron lock; early C19 pegged
collar truss roof. The garden to the right, approx 40m square,
is enclosed by a rubblestone wall approx 4m high. A
hipped-roofed privy on a corner close to the house has 2 seats
and a space for a former child's seat.
The forecourt is enclosed by a plinth with C19 spear-head
railings flanking a gate and square gate piers.

Listing NGR: SX8482072487

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