Description

BRIXHAM

SX9255 DREW STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/7/104 (North West side) 10/01/75 No.105 Watermans Arms Public House

GV II

Public house. C17, remodelled early C19. Front range has solid rendered walls; rear wing of exposed stone rubble. Slated roofs. Rendered chimney on each end wall of front range and on rear wall of wing. 3 storeys. 3 windows wide. Doorway, roughly in centre, has 6-panelled door, the 2 bottom panels flush, the 2 top panels now glazed; flat wooden hood on shaped brackets. To left of each of ground and second storeys a 14-paned sash window. To left of door a small 6-paned sash-window. Above it a small 8-paned one. To right of ground and second storeys a slightly projecting wooden block of windows, 2 per storey with plain sashes. Third storey has 3 windows with 6-paned sashes. Raised band above ground storey. Pilaster-strip with round-headed panel to left of second and third storeys. Left end wall has a 1-light wood casement of 3 panes to left of ground storey. Rear wing, fronting Horsepool Street, is 2-storeyed and 1 window wide. Late C20 plank door to right of ground storey. Mid C19 shop window to left: 6-paned with flanking pilasters and entablature. 2-paned sash-window in upper storey. Boxed eaves-cornice. To the left, the rear gate; wide with segmental arch of voussoirs, double plank doors. INTERIOR: only ground-floor bar inspected. This occupies the whole front range. To left of doorway, C17 chamfered beams with scroll-stops.

Listing NGR: SX9201455124

External Links

• Wikidata Q26489747

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)