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Abbey Vale 450066

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.543515 50.469268,-3.543624 50.469302,-3.543672...
• entry-date: 1994-09-27
• listed-building: 1272251
• name: Abbey Vale
• notes: Detached villa. c1860 with later alterations. Stuccoed with a hipped slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with platbands. PLAN : Rectangular plan to main block wi th rear wing, now a separate flat. Entrance on right return into hall foDm which the top-list stair rises. Cellars with ground floor access to the rear. There has been some repartitioning on the first floor. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar. Depp boxed eaves on paired moulded brackets. 3 bay garden front with platband and shouldered, eared architraves to the first floor windows which are glazed with 12-pane double-hung sashes. Ground floor windows are one-over one-pane sashes and have probably been reglazed. Verandah along front returns at either end and has tent felt roof on plain posts with straight struts. Entrance elevation slightly altered. Chimney shaft in centre, above porch. Large projecting central porch with Ionic columns in antis and plain, rebuilt parapet. 3 first floor blind recesses or blocked windows and one reglazed opening plus two small secondary windows. Ground floor has one 2-pane sash and one inserted window. Half-glazed outer door with Edwardian-style geometric stained glass and glazed side lights; Greek key cornice over. The elevations to the rear are mostly one over one-pane sashes but one 12-pane sash survives on the ground floor. INTERIOR: The doors have been replaced but skirtings and panelled shutters survive. Stair with slender turned balusterrs and wreathed handrail is missing a section at the landing. Plaster cornices survive on both the ground and first floor with another likely to survive above a twentieth-century ceiling. Two original polished limestone chimney-pieces survive. Stairwell is lit by round glazed light with glazing bars in floral motif and coloured glass. Listing NGR: SX9055364406
• reference: 450066
• start-date: 1994-09-27