Description

BRIXHAM

SX9154 MILTON STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/8/250 (South East side) 10/01/75 No.60 including front garden walls

GV II

House. Probably C17 or earlier, remodelled early C19. Solid roughcast walls. Slated roof. Large rendered chimney of pre-C19 appearance on ridge off centre to left. 2 storeys, 3 windows wide. The right-hand end seems to have been rebuilt or added later, leaving the rest to form a symmetrical 2-window house with centre doorway. 6-panelled door with old brass knocker and letterbox, the 2 bottom panels flush; plain narrow fanlight. Trellised wood porch with louvred sides and ogee roof; in centre a round arch decorated with a fringe of tiny pendants. WIndows have 6-paned sashes, including right-hand upper storey window. To right of ground storey is a plank door with a 2-light wood casement window immediately to its left, this having 8 panes per light. Subsidiary features: the front garden stands well above street-level and has a stone rubble retaining wall at the front, contiguous with that of No.58 (qv). The wall has a coping of flat stone slabs and rises to form gate piers opposite the 2 doors: Lower gateway opposite the main house door, wide ones (with large hinges) at right-hand end. The steps leading up to the main door are flanked by rendered stone rubble walls with stone slab copings. At right-hand end the side wall has a chamfered coping ramped up against the wall of the house.

Listing NGR: SX9151954695

External Links

• Wikidata Q26489732

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)