ASHFORD HOUSE (FLATS 1-15)

ASHFORD HOUSE (FLATS 1-15), COMMERCIAL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1170447
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1966
List Entry Name:: ASHFORD HOUSE (FLATS 1-15)
Statutory Address:: ASHFORD HOUSE (FLATS 1-15), COMMERCIAL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1170447
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: ASHFORD HOUSE (FLATS 1-15)
Statutory Address 1:: ASHFORD HOUSE (FLATS 1-15), COMMERCIAL ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ASHFORD HOUSE (FLATS 1-15), COMMERCIAL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Uffculme
National Grid Reference:: ST0670612621

Details

ST 01 SE 4/165 5.4.66

UFFCULME COMMERCIAL STREET, Uffculme Ashford House (flats 1-15 consecutive)

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A block of fifteen apartments; the historic core of the building was formerly a school; dated 1701,with extensive C19 extensions. The older block of brick in a inconsistent Flemish bond; gable end slate roof. Later extensions in random rubble sandstone and brick, also with gable end slate roof. The interior of the older building has been so altered in its conversion to apartments that its original plan is no longer retrievable; it forms an L-shaped range, the main front facing east, the wing standing forward of the right-hand rooms was extended in the mid C19;the two late-C19 blocks added to the south are of little historical interest. Exterior Front (facing east):five,(originally six) window range. First floor with one three-light casement window with latticed glazing bars, the remainder of two-lights,some with old leaded panes. A first floor door has been inserted and is approached by an external flight steps. Ground floor: two post 1701 doorways; otherwise casement windows of two and three-lights,C19 and C20. An oval plaque bears the legend 'This School and School House was given and endowed by Nicholas Ashford Gent of Taunton St Mary Magdalen, AD 1701'.Bellcote on roof ridge, timber with panelled pilaster at the corners,surmounted by a leaded ogivally-shaped cupola. South facing three-window range; two tripartite four:twelve:four pane hornless sash windows flank a twelve-pane hornless sash window with a small latticed single light window to extreme right. Ground floor:wide double doors, panelled, under canopy with shaped brackets; to either side a tripartite four:twelve: four pane sash window(one horned, the other hornless);a later door with rectangular overlight to the right upsets the symmetry of the front. A one window bay extension to the right, recessed slightly,with a sixteen-pane sash window to ground floor, and another sash window to first floor, three-panes up, six down. Internal end stack.The rear of both these ranges with casement windows, almost all of them C19 or later.The late C19 random rubble extension with large four-light windows with stone transoms and surround, the south facing front with three separate gables; the late C19(or early C20)brick extension with similar windows of timber. Some joinery fragments of the C18 survive internally. Although very altered, Ashford House makes a major contribution to the village scene.

Listing NGR: ST0670612621

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Legacy System number:: 95825
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.