Capeltor

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DEVON LAMERTON WEST DEVON CAPELTOR

SX 47 SW 5/14 II

House. Incorporates structure of an earlier probably C18 cottage enlarged and altered in mid-C19 as house for the mine captain, Devon Great United Mine; later a farmhouse. Early C20 alterations and late C20 internal alterations. Rubble with slates hung over rubble on entrance front, whitewashed gable end and rear walls. Double span slate roof. Rendered gable end stacks to front range and to the S.W. gable of the rear range. Two storeys and single storey lean-to at S.W. end. The front range contains walls of original cottage: two rooms separated by cross wall. In the N.E. gable and wall of rear range evidence of the C18 rear wing with chimney stack heightened in mid C19 in padded gable. Central stairwell in rear range with room to either side. Entrance front: central mid C19 single storey timber entrance porch carried on rendered dwarf walls to either side of doorway. Octagonal columns at outer corners of porch support a deep entablature with heavily moulded cornice decorated with plain paterae applied to the frieze. Fixed glazed lights to either side of porch doorway and to sides of porch with central vertical and horizontal glazing bars. Panelled door to porch with glazed upper panels, C20 inner door. A C19 sash to either side of porch and two similar sashes above on first floor, all with central vertical glazing bars. To left, a 2-light casement with glazing bars in end wall of lean-to. A hipped return to roof of lean-to. Return wall with C20 four-light casement with glazing bars (6 panes in each light) and a small 4.-pane casement to first floor above. Rear wall has a central doorway with boarded door flanked by a 2-light casement to either side and three 2-light casements on first floor all with glazing bars and six or eight panes in each light. Lean-to to right has a 2-light casement with central horizontal bars in end wall under a segmental arched head. Interior: front room to right has mid C19 castiron fireplace with jamb shafts and foliage in spandrels and a polished black stone chamfered mantel above brought into house in 1982. Front room to left has panelled cupboards to left and right of fireplace and window jamb shutters. A staircase at rear in straight flight: stick balustrade with moulded newel to landing. In a bedroom on first floor a fireplace with Mid C19 decorative castiron grate.

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LAMERTON SX 47 SW

5/14 Capeltor - II

Mine captain's house at Devon Great United Mine, subsequently used as farmhouse, now house. Mid C19 with later alterations and C20 additions. Rubble, slate-hung front, whitewashed sides, 2-span slate roof with gabled ends, rendered stacks at gable end of front range. Originally single depth plan, central hall and 2 heated rooms, rear range added with straight stair to rear; kitchen in rear left room, heated rear right room. 2 storeys and 2 windows, all 4-pane sashes, central porch has glazed upper part with octagonal wooden piers at angles, panelled and half-glazed outer door, wooden frieze with raised roundels and cornice; attached to left a single-storey lean-to with hipped roof, with 2-light casement of 3 panes each light to front. Left return has rubble lean-to with C20 4-light casement and door; right return has off-centre ground floor 2-light casement of 6 panes each light and small 4-pane casement-above. Rear has at ground floor two 2-light casements of 8 panes each light and door, first floor has 3 similar 2-light casements, lean-to has 2-light casement of 2 panes each light. Interior room to front right has cast iron fireplace with 2-centred arch with jamb shafts and foliage in spandrels, polished black stone chamfered mantel; room to front left has panelled cupboards left and right of fireplace, straight stair to rear.

Listing NGR: SX4137573964

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