Description

BRIXHAM

SX9256SW NEW ROAD, Lower Brixham 1946-1/10/184 (North side) 10/01/75 Nos.1 AND 3 Grosvenor House (No.1) (Formerly Listed as: NEW ROAD Nos.1 AND 3)

GV II

Mirrored pair of houses designed to look like a single large house. Early/mid C19, with added late C19 bays. Solid rendered walls. Exposed part of left side wall slate-hung. Hipped slated roof, reportedly with centre valley. Rendered chimney on each gable-end with others in centre valley. Double-depth plan: one room front-and-back with adjacent entrance passages in centre leading to staircases at rear. Upper-floor plans the same, but with 2 front rooms. 3 storeys. 4 windows wide, the middle windows narrower and set close together. Between them in each of the 2 upper storeys a round-headed semicircular niche. Paired segmental-headed doorways with reveals having a single long panel each side; doors have 2 matching long panels and wreath knockers. In front of them a single large porch on fluted Doric columns; these support a flat hood design as an entablature, the soffits of beams resting on the columns being panelled. Each ground storey has a flat-topped canted bay of different design; that at No.1 is wood-framed with reeded frames above a solid base, that at No.3 is solid-walled with plain sashes and moulded top-cornice. Upper-storey windows small-paned: 6 over 6 panes, except that at No.1 the third-storey windows have 3 over 6 panes. The width of the panes is adjusted to match that of the openings. Raised band just below sill-level in second storey. Panelled pilaster-strip with incised key-pattern up left side of house; lower part altered, probably when adjoining house built up against it. Deep, flat eaves-cornice on all 4 sides; except where butted by adjoining house. Rear wall has small-paned sashes: 12 over 12 panes in ground and second storeys, 8 over 8 panes in third storey, 6 over 6 panes in stair windows. Right side wall has a blind window in each of second and third storeys; small metal-framed window in ground storey. INTERIOR: both houses have wooden geometric stairs with thin square balusters and shaped step-ends; balustrade at No.3 scrolled at foot, lower part of that at No.1 boxed in. Both entrance passages and stair halls stone-flagged. At No.1 the ground-floor front room has moulded cornice with enriched ceiling band; rear room has panelled shutters. Right-hand first-floor front room has moulded cornice; rear room has panelled cupboards. On the first half-landing of the stair is a closet (now wc) with original door having one tall panel. Similar 2-panelled door on second-floor landing. At No.3 the entrance passage has lobby with moulded cornice. 2-panelled door like that at No.1 into front room and also between front and back rooms. Front room has moulded cornice with enriched ceiling band. Wooden chimneypiece possibly late C19, with bracketed shelf and moulded jambs. Rear room has panelled shutters and panelled cupboards; one-panel door to closet at rear. First-floor half-landing has one-panel closet door like that at No.1; three 2-panel doors on full landing. First-floor front room has moulded cornice; wood chimneypiece, probably original, with moulded surround. Rear room has panelled cupboard. Second-floor landing has three 2-panel doors. Roof structures not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX9227056041

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