Description

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 CLARENCE HILL
673-1/8/73 (South side)
23/10/72 No.29
and attached rear boundary railings
(Formerly Listed as:
CLARENCE HILL
Nos.27-35 (Odd))

GV II

House. c1840-50. Stucco on stone rubble; end stacks have
plastered brick chimneyshafts with old pots; slate roof.
PLAN: Double-depth plan, one room wide.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 2-window front in a restrained
Domestic Tudor style. Doorway to right has stucco Tuscan
doorcase; flat pilasters with moulded entablature on shallow
console brackets. Doorway is recessed and contains original
good panelled door: upper fielded panels and bottom panels
have vertical mouldings, narrow plain overlight above.
Windows, with Tudor-style hoodmoulds and blocks under the
sills, contain horned 12-pane sashes. Replacement moulded
timber eaves cornice. Parallel roof between adjoining
properties. C20 flat-roofed dormers front and back.
This is the only house in the terrace to retain the original
stucco detail of the rear elevation, rusticated quoins to the
basement arcade, string course at ground-floor level,
pedimented hoods on console brackets to the ground-floor
windows and Tudor-style hoodmoulds to the first-floor windows.
2-bay arcade to basement, with rusticated stucco voussoirs and
central circular column with moulded capital, now filled with
C20 windows. Tall 12-pane sashes (unusual horizontal glazing
pattern, only 2 panes wide) to ground floor and conventional
12-pane sashes to the first floor. Probably original moulded
timber eaves cornice.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: stone revetment wall to Browns Hill
surmounted by original cast-iron spear-headed railings.
Part of a prominent terrace overlooking the town.

Listing NGR: SX8760251484

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584692

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)