Description

SX9255
1946-1/7/73
10/01/75

BRIXHAM
BURTON STREET, Higher Brixham
(North side)
Nos.5, 7 AND 9, Beams Cottage (No.7)
(Formerly Listed as:
BURTON STREET, Higher Brixham
Nos.5, 7 AND 9)

II

Row of 3 cottages lying at right-angles to the street. Nos 5 &
7 probably C17 or earlier, remodelled early/mid C19; No.9
added or rebuilt at same period. Solid rendered walls. Slated
roofs; No.9 hipped to Burton Street. Large, old rendered
chimney on right gable of No.5; a later one at rear.
Part-rendered, part-stone rubble chimney on right gable of
No.9; rendered chimney on left side wall. 2 storeys, No.9 with
basement. Nos 5 & 7 are a mirrored pair, 4 windows wide, with
adjacent doorways in the centre. Door at No.5 is C19; 2 flush
panels below, 1 large glazed panel above. Late C19 canopy with
shaped brackets, extending over both doors. Windows have C20
wood casements, except that the ground-storey window at No.7
has a canted bay, slightly recessed within an earlier opening.
Deep, flat eaves-cornice. No.9 has 2-window front to Burton
Street with a blank space to right where symmetry would demand
a third window. Doorway set in slight centre projection with
flat, deep eaves-cornice breaking forward round it.
Round-arched window above doorway has 2-paned sashes. Windows
to left have C20 wood frames. 2 similar windows in side wall
to right.

Listing NGR: SX9239555565

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489768

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)