ALTAMIRA COMBECOTE COMBECOTE, ALTAMIRA AND ATTACHED GATEWAY

ALTAMIRA, 31, RIDGE HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292327
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: ALTAMIRA COMBECOTE COMBECOTE, ALTAMIRA AND ATTACHED GATEWAY
Statutory Address:: ALTAMIRA, 31, RIDGE HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292327
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: ALTAMIRA COMBECOTE COMBECOTE, ALTAMIRA AND ATTACHED GATEWAY
Statutory Address 1:: ALTAMIRA, 31, RIDGE HILL
Statutory Address 2:: COMBECOTE, 31, RIDGE HILL
Statutory Address 3:: COMBECOTE, ALTAMIRA AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, 31, RIDGE HILL

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:: ALTAMIRA, 31, RIDGE HILL
Statutory Address:: COMBECOTE, 31, RIDGE HILL
Statutory Address:: COMBECOTE, ALTAMIRA AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, 31, RIDGE HILL

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

County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: Dartmouth
National Grid Reference:: SX 87658 51615

Details

DARTMOUTH

SX8751 RIDGE HILL 673-1/5/211 (South side) No.31 Combecote, Altamira and attached gateway

II

Large house, now divided into 2 parts. Mid/late C18, with some superficial modernisation in the 1840s and a modernisation and extension from around the 1860s. According to the owners it was the town house of the Newman family. Plastered stone rubble, exposed to rear; end, axial and rear lateral stacks with plastered brick chimneyshafts, some with pots; slate roof with alternate crested ridge tiles. PLAN: 2 parallel ranges, 2 rooms wide with central cross passage, double-depth plan. The house was superficially modernised, probably in the 1840s, and then, around the 1860s, the right end was altered. The principal parlour was enlarged and the extension given an end stack; a new entrance created this end with a porch behind the parlour extension. The stairwell was thus enlarged, and refurbished to create an impressive entrance hall. The old back doorway to the passage was evidently reduced to service use. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics; 5:3-window garden front. The left 5-window section is the C18 house as modernised in the 1840s, and the actual windows, all horned sashes without glazing bars, from the 1860s or even later. All first-floor windows have stucco Tudor-style hoodmoulds. Central round-headed doorway with a simple pedimented flat stucco surround now contains a recessed C20 part-glazed door under a plain fanlight. Plat band at first-floor level and moulded eaves cornice to parapet. Twin roofs are gable-ended with tall coping. Front right end 3-window section from the 1860s; a canted bay containing sashes without glazing bars, the front ground-floor one is full height. Stucco plat band with moulded cornice at first-floor level and first-floor windows have a continuous sill; they interrupt a moulded string course, and above Tudor arches rise into a flat eaves band. Same style is continued round the right end to the entrance porch; large double 2-panel doors under an overlight. Windows with shallow hoodmoulds including the triangular-headed windows in the end gables. Rear wall (to the street) includes a round-headed C18 doorway to the passage; timber doorcase with pilasters to fluted brackets carrying an open-pediment hood, it contains a part-glazed 6-panel door under a plain fanlight. Also some horned 12-pane sashes. The rear doorway is now from a service courtyard enclosed by low service buildings. INTERIOR: A great deal of C18 and C19 detail, including the 1860s entrance hall floored with a chequer pattern of red and black tiles. Large open-well stair top-lit by a cupola containing some coloured glass, and has large newel posts with truncated pyramid finials and turned balusters. The main parlour (front right) has an C18 Adam-style chimneypiece and the arch knocked through to the C19 extension supported on large columns of red marble with grey marble bases and capitals. Plaster cornice is the same throughout the front rooms and may be C18. Other C18 and C19 joinery and other features around the house. Roof not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Front gateway: the stone rubble boundary wall to the street is plastered as it curves into and ramps up to the square-section gate piers with pineapple finials. Gateway probably dates from the 1860s phase.

Listing NGR: SX8765851615

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Legacy System number:: 387327
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.