Temple Hill

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EAST BUDLEIGH YETTINGTON ROAD ST 08 NE 3/203 Temple Hill - - II House. Circa 1850, carefully modernised circa 1983. Stucco walls, mostly brick but some stone rubble; brick stacks with plastered chimney shafts; slate roof, some tile to rear. Main block faces south-west with double depth plan. It is 2 rooms wide. The main domestic rooms are those 2 on the front the these have end stacks. Main entrance is to rear of left (north-western) side directly into a large entrance hall and stair behind the front left room. Small room to rear of right front room and behind that an integral 2-storey outshot. Behind the entrance hall is the kitchen block projecting at right angles and projecting a little from the left end. It has a gable-end stack. Behind the house a small courtyard is enclosed by service buildings but also includes a tall single storey block, lit from the top and with an end stack; probably once a billiard room. House is 2 storeys and main block has attics. Tudor Gothic style. Symmetrical 3-window front. In the centre at ground floor level is a tall round- headed niche with flat architrave and hoodmould. It contains a moulded lions head water spout and lobed half basin. The niche is flanked by flat-roofed bays, projecting square with panelled corner shafts, moulded cornice and containing original French windows. The cornice is carried across over the central alcove as a dripcourse. The first floor windows have Tudor-style hoodmoulds and contain horned 4-pane sashes with unusual horizontal glazing bars. All the windows have shaped vallances for external blinds. The stucco front is lightly incised as ashlar with quoins on the corners. Moulded eaves cornice and low parapet with soffit-moulded coping. The parapet is interrupted by 3 attic dormers; horned round-headed sashes without glazing bars and architrave with panelled imposts, moulded head and resting on large blocks on shaped brackets. Roof is hipped each end. The chimney shafts have soffit-moulded coping. On the left end, the entrance front, the main block has the main doorway to rear with another horned sash with hoodmould above and a round-headed dormer above that. The doorway contains a part-glazed door with margin panes and lies behind a flat- roofed porch flush with the kitchen behind. It contains a part-glazed panelled door with fanlight and side lights. Stucco imposts and moulded head with a rusticated keystone which interrupts the eaves cornice. The moulded coping of the low parapet is the same used on the kitchen block. The kitchen has a 2-window front; horned sashes with hoodmoulds and soffit-moulded sills to the ground floor and twin round- headed lancets to first floor. The right end wall has an irregular 2-window front with a third to the outshot, all horned sashes but only the latter with hoodmoulds. Interior is largely original and remarkably well-preserved. The main rooms have marble chimneypieces and moulded plaster cornices, the latter in a kind of Jacobethan style. The joinery detail is high quality. It includes a large open well stair, again vaguely Jacobethan in style. It has an open string with shaped stair brackets, square newel posts with pyramid caps, mahogany handrail and turned balusters. It is lit by a skylight. Even many of the brass door handles etc are original. The front ground floor rooms have ornate brass bell pulls enriched with openwork patterns and painted porcelain handles. In the service outshot the bells remain, each with a different tone.

Listing NGR: SY0654985090

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