Description

BRIXHAM

SX9155 MILTON STREET, Higher Brixham
1946-1/6/235 (South East side)
10/01/75 Nos.20 AND 22
The Lodge and The Lilacs, including
front garden wall and gate piers
(Formerly Listed as:
MILTON STREET, Higher Brixham
(South East side)
The Lodge)

GV II

Large house, now sub-divided. Early/mid C19. Solid rendered
walls; right gable slate-hung. Hipped slate roof with crested
ridge tiles. Rendered chimneys. 2 storeys. 3-window main front
facing north-east. 3-window right side wall facing street and
containing the doorways. Ground storey has semicircular
round-arched niche in centre. Wooden French windows at either
side, each leaf having 3 panes with margin-panes; transom
lights of 1 pane with margin-pane, except that left transom
light of right-hand sashes with margin-panes: 3 over 6 panes.
Deep flat eaves cornice with paired brackets and
soffit-panels. In right side wall the entrance to No.20 and
the window above it are deeply recessed under a segmental
arch. 6-panelled door, the top 2 panels now glazed; panelled
reveals and soffit, 2 panels deep. In upper storey a 2-light
wood casement window with 2 panes per light. In front of those
a late C20 wrought-iron porch and wooden balcony. At No.22
windows have late C20 small-paned wood frames, but the
original cornice continues across its front. Subsidiary
features: Along whole street frontage is a stone rubble wall
with stone slab coping, a pair of square gate piers each end
with square stone slab caps having rendered pyramidal tops;
the piers to The Lodge, unlike those of The Lilacs, project
slightly from the wall-face. At the right-hand end the wall
turns back to meet the house, its coping sweeping upwards at
the rear.

Listing NGR: SX9189555008

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489730

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings