Kingsway House Kingway Cottage

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SX 45 SW MAKER-WITH-RAME DEVONPORT HILL (west side),
Kingsand

9/104 Kingway Cottage and Kingsway House

GV II

House, now 2 houses. Circa 1740, with alterations of C19 and C20. Rubble,
rendered, slate-hung at 2nd and 3rd floors; slate roof, hipped over Kingway House,
with brick stack to front of rear block. Kingway Cottage has slate and bitumen roof
with brick gable end stack to left.
Originally single depth plan house with entrance to central passage; Kingsway
Cottage, to left, and Kingsway house, containing the passage and room to right.
Kingsway Cottage is entered through a porch wing to right, and is of one-room plan.
Kingsway House has prinicipal room to right with stair well to rear; service rooms
to rear of stair well. 2-storey block added to front extended the front room. The
rear block over the service rooms and principal room is 4-storey.
Kingsway Cottage is of 2 storeys and one window, all C20; there is a single storey
porch wing to front right, with a 2-pane light and pointed arched Gothic glazed
overlight. Kingsway House, to right, has a 2-storey block to front and a 4-storey
block to rear. The front block appears to be an addition of the later C18, with a
door and C20 window at ground and first floor. There is a coved moulded string
course over the ground floor, which may be an indication that this was originally
part of a late C18 fortification. The rear block has C20 windows at 2nd and 3rd
floor and C20 2-light casement at 3rd floor to left side.
Interior of Kingsway Cottage This is made up of the rooms which would originally
have been to the left of the entrance passage of Kingsway House. There is a dog-leg
stair with vertical panelling along the party wall, at first floor one 2-panelled
door. The interior has been much altered in C20.
Interior of Kingsway House This is entered through a passage along the left side of
the front block; blocked doorway to left (to Kingsway Cottage) and panelled
cupboards to left with H hinges, set under the stairwell of stair to Kingsway
Cottage. The ground floor front room has fireplace to outer side with late C18 hob
grate. The stair hall, to the rear of the front room, has a dog-leg stair of mid
C19; service room to rear. At first floor, the C18 dog-leg stair survives, with
stick balusters and square newels, wave-moulded string. At 2nd floor, rear room has
2-panelled fielded door and chimneypiece with eared architrave and moulded mantel,
panelled cupboards to right and left. The front room has fireplace with reeded
pilasters, cupboards with glazed doors to right and left. At 3rd floor, the front
room has 4-panelled door, dado panelling and chimneypiece with eared architrave and
the typical Kingsand/Cawsand fretwork frieze below moulded mantel. Panelled
partition wall to rear room and 2-panelled door.
This house is said to have been used as an inn or mess-room for the officers from
Maker Barracks (q.v.) in the C18/early C19. The position of the building makes it
possible that it might have originally have been part of the fortifications
defending the Kingsand/Cawsand beaches, subsidiary to the Amherst Battery, now part
of the Grey House and No. 2 (q.v.). It is possible that the 4-storey rear block was
added to the front block, and that the whole building was altered at the time of the
division into 2 houses, probably mid C19.


Listing NGR: SX4347250631

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