Western House

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

CHUDLEIGH FORE STREET (west side), Chudleigh SX 8679 6/61 Western House 23.8.55

GV II

House and wall to garden in front. Early/mid C19. Probably stone with a blocked-out smooth cement render; slate roof, gabled at ends; rendered end stacks with several chimney pots. 4-room double depth plan with a central passage and 2 principal front rooms.

3 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with deep eaves at the front with eaves brackets.

Projecting flat-roofed central porch with glazed sides and pilasters with sunk panels; 2-leaf half-glazed outer door; deep panelled reveals to inner door. Flanking 3-storey canted bay windows with moulded cornices; ground floor windows 2-pane sashes; first floor windows 8-pane central sashes; flanked second floor windows 2 over 4 pane sashes by 4 pane sashes flanked by 1-over 2-pane sashes. The 2 windows in the central bay have floating cornices; first floor window a 12 pane sash; second floor window 3 over 6-pane sash. On the left and right returns small lunette windows on the second floor. Western House is slightly set back from Fore Street with a low grey limestone rubble wall in front of the house.

Listing NGR: SX8661979374

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0768 IOE Records taken by Peter Funnell; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Peter Funnell. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project