Description

BRIXHAM

SX9256SW FORE STREET, Lower Brixham
1946-1/10/146 (North West side)
No.6

GV II

Large house, now shops. Early C19; possibly a remodelling of
an earlier house. Solid rendered front. Top of left side wall
of stone rubble with red-brick gable. Slated roof; rear slope
appears to be more steeply pitched than front. Double-fronted
and double-depth with staircase at rear centre. 3 storeys with
garret. 3 widely-spaced windows wide. Ground storey has wide
centre doorway with bead-moulded surround; flanking pilaster
strips, moulded cornice on consoles. Upper-storey windows have
sashes with horns; sashes in third storey 2-paned.
Second-storey windows have moulded cornices on consoles.
Raised quoins in all 3 storeys. Deep flat eaves-cornice, with
mouldings at rear of 1 soffit. Small hipped dormer in centre
of roof; 2-light wood casement. Matching dormer with pent-roof
on rear roof slope. INTERIOR not inspected, but seems to have
original staircase with boarded-in balustrade. The house
occupies an important position near the junction with Bolton
Street and New Road.

Listing NGR: SX9237056034

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489750

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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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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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)