Description

BRIXHAM

SX9256SE RANSCOMBE ROAD, Lower Brixham 1946-1/11/210 (South West side) 10/01/75 Nos.39-49 (Odd) including front garden walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: RANSCOMBE ROAD (South West side) Nos.37-49 (Odd))

GV II

Terrace of 6 houses. Early C19. Solid rendered walls. Slated roofs. Rendered chimneys on left side walls of Nos 39, 43 & 47. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys with inserted garrets. No.39 is 2 windows wide, the others 1 window wide. No.39 has doorway to right with a passage-door, leading to rear of terrace, at extreme right-hand end. Nos 41 & 43 and 45 & 47 have paired doorways adjoining their party-walls. No.49 has doorway in left side wall. No.43 has original 6-panelled door with fluted bottom panels; top 2 panels now glazed. No.45 has trellised wood porch with louvred sides and ogee roof. Windows have plain sashes at Nos 39 & 41; barred sashes at No.45, 12 over 12 panes in ground storey, 6 over 6 panes above. No.47 has tall sash window in ground storey with 6 over 12 panes; plain sashes above. No.49 has wood French windows in ground storey, with 2 panes per leaf; plain sashes in upper storey. No.41 has rusticated pilaster strips at each end of its front. No.49 has the same to right; raised quoins to left. All 6 houses have dormer windows of different sizes; probably later, although the small gabled one at No.45 may be original. Subsidiary features: front gardens stand high above the road and have stone rubble retaining-walls, painted at Nos 39 & 43, rendered at Nos 45-49. Those at Nos 39 & 43 carry C19 iron railings with fleurs-de-lys heads to the uprights. No.45 has a curved coping, sweeping up at each end to a pier with pyramidal cap and ball finial. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SX9291156206

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)