Sandford Orleigh

Heritage listing

Details SX 85 72, 1012-1/7/74 NEWTON ABBOT, EXETER ROAD (east side), Sandford Orleigh 16/07/49 II Mansion. 1832, altered and extended to left late C19. MATERIALS: ashlar and render, slate roofs with various stacks. STYLE: Picturesque Gothic. PLAN: irregular. EXTERIOR: Two storeys; 6-window range. South-facing entrance front is in four blocks. The block to the right has a large late C19 projecting 2-storey porch to the right of centre with parapets to returns which rise to a coped gable at the front with a stone cross to apex. First floor has tall 2-light stone-mullioned sash window with three brackets to the sill. Ground floor has crocketed angle buttresses flanking wide shallow-pointed arch with engaged shafts to capitals framing double doors. Return walls have similar arches which frame windows. The two bays to the left with hipped roof and parapet have two first-floor windows with label moulds over carved quatrefoil friezes and plate-glass sash windows. A crenellated rectangular bay below has label mould over three similar windows with overlights, probably late C19. In the angle to the right of door is a late C19 single-storey fully-glazed conservatory with decorative cast-iron corners to overlights. Right return garden front facing east has three coped gables. That to the left has a flat-roofed 2-storey crenellated canted bay with 6/6-pane sash windows in similar architraves with label moulds over quatrefoil friezes to first-floor front and plate-glass sash windows in moulded architraves to ground floor. A late C19 two-storey canted bay with crenellated parapet to right has similar first-floor windows with triangular aprons and moulded architraves to plate-glass sashes to ground floor. Single-storey late C19 parapeted range between the outer bays also has canted bay

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.