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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489708

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