Strete Ralegh House

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WHIMPLE SY 09 NE 6/210 Strete Ralegh House (formerly listed as Strete Raleigh Hotel) 11.11.52 - II

Small country house, now divided into flats. Main house is very similar to Winscombe Park, Southleigh, which is dated 1826; some modernisation in the early C20 by the Imbert-Terry family. Plastered brick and stone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings; brick stacks and plastered chimney-shafts, most with moulded stone coping; slate coping. Plan: the main house is rectangular in plan. The entrance is on the north long side, the garden front to south. A little distance to east is the service block. It is the same width as the main block but is set at right angles to it; 2 rooms wide under parallel roofs. Main block and former service block are joined by a narrow connecting block on the south. Most of the rooms are heated by a series of axial stacks. The main stair occupies the north-west corner. The main feature of the early C20 refurbishment is the north porch with a 1-room plan extension alongside. House is 2 storeys with attics. The 2 phases are in different Tudor Gothic styles. Exterior: the south (garden) front of the main house has a once-symmetrical 4- window front. Most are original tall and narrow 2-light timber sash windows with glazing bars, cinquefoil heads with sunk spandrels and stone Tudor - style hoodmoulds. The attic windows have had their cinquefoil heads cut off and a couple of windows are C20 (one, ground floor left, converted to a French window). Symmetry is upset by the insertion of a larger early C20 stone mullion and transom window with hoodmould and containing a rectangular pane of leaded glass. Each end corner has set back buttresses with weathered offsets and there is a similar buttress in the middle. Each end has a gable with stone coping and between these gables is an embattled parapet. The left (west) end has a 2-window front in the same style. Here the windows are 3 lights and mostly intact originals. The original north front is mostly hidden behind the early C20 extension but at the right (west) end a 2- window section of original fenestration remains and here is a late C20 inserted doorway with a Queen Anne style doorcase. The early C20 extension has similar set- back buttresses to the old house, but the windows here are distinctive; stone mullion-and-transom windows containing rectangular panes of leaded glass. The entrance porch doorway is a large stone Tudor arch with moulded surround, quatrefoil panels in the spandrels and hoodmoulds which step over a plaque carved with the Imbert-Terry arms. The former service block contains some original sashes at first floor level, most now missing their original cinquefoil heads, some early C20 stone - mullion windows (tne connecting block contains only these) and on the east long side some conventional 12-pane sashes and an early C19 bow window containing a 16- pane sash. Interior: contains good early C19 and early C20 carpentry, plaster and other details. In the entrance hall the original front doorway (to the porch) has been blocked but the arch-headed fanlight with Y-tracery glazing bars remains. The stone open well stair has cast iron balusters and a mahogany handrail. Bold moulded plaster cornice round the stair hall. The early C20 room alongside the north porch has a large carved stone chimneypiece and ornamental moulded plaster ceiling, both in a kind of Tudor/Jacobean style. Strete Ralegh was Estreeta in Domesday and lies on the old Roman road between Exeter and Honiton. Source: Devon SMR.

Listing NGR: SY0506295518

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