Description

BRIXHAM

SX9255 BOLTON STREET, Lower Brixham 1946-1/7/129 (East side) 18/10/49 Nos.24 AND 26 Church House (No.26) including front garden wall

GV II

Pair of cottages, No.26 now used as Church House. Probably early C18 with minor early C19 alterations. Solid roughcast walls. Slated roof. Large roughcast chimneys with tapered caps on right gable-end and on party-wall between Nos 24 & 26. No.26 has 2-room plan, the left-hand room considerably the larger. Single-flight staircase between the rooms, opening directly from front door. One long meeting room on upper floor. No.24 single-fronted. 2 storeys. 6 windows wide; 2 of them at No.24, four at No.26. Six-panelled doors with 4-paned fanlights; flat moulded hoods on long shaped brackets, the hood at No.26 significantly the larger. Original door at No.24 with flush bottom panels, the top panels now glazed; door at No.26 is a late C20 replacement. Windows have box-framed barred sashes; 6 over 6 panes at No.24, 8 over 8 panes at No.26. The 2 upper-storey windows at No.24 have moulded flush-frames; other frames are plain, with those at No.26 slightly recessed. Coved moulded eaves-cornice. Rear wall has small-paned sashes. INTERIOR: ground-floor rooms at No.26 have panelled shutters. Left-hand room has fireplace with moulded cornice; right-hand room also reported to have old fireplace. Stair has wooden gallery balustrade with thin square balusters; oblong-section newel with moulded top. At head of stair an old cupboard with plank door and strap-hinges. First-floor room has fireplace with moulded cornice. Exposed feet of roof-trusses boarded in. 4-panelled doors throughout the house. No.24 not inspected. Subsidiary features: Low stone rubble garden wall with rendered chamfered coping; original railings. Rendered piers with pyramidal caps. To right of the house, fronting a side-garden, the wall rises to a height of approx 1.75m.

Listing NGR: SX9237955909

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