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

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy