Description

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 MARKET STREET 673-1/8/171 (East side) 23/10/72 No.4

GV II

House with shop to ground-floor front. c1830. Mixed construction; stone sidewalls and timber-framed front, show fronts with stucco; front lateral stack in party wall and rear end stack with rendered brick chimneyshafts and some old pots; slate roof. PLAN: House built end onto the street, 2 rooms deep with stair between. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window front. Elegant front, bowed between pilaster strips, the stucco lightly blocked as ashlar. Ground-floor shop front with central doorway containing part-glazed double doors under plain overlight, single display window each side with top glazing bars and flanking pilasters with top scroll consoles. First floor has original tall 6/9-pane sashes with small cast-iron balconies. Second floor has 12-pane sashes, centre window blind. Very deep eaves with plain soffit and hipped roof with canted sides. Left side elevation to Union Street is 3 bays and includes some blind windows as well as 12- and 16-pane sashes. Central round-headed doorway with flat stucco architrave containing original panelled door and fanlight with patterned glazing bars. Round-headed ground-floor sash windows with the same unusual patterns of glazing bars to the upper sashes. INTERIOR: Good original detail including open-string stick-baluster stair with mahogany handrail and curtail step. HISTORY: The area was developed in the late 1820s and 1830s on the site of the infilled tidal mill pool and contains a good group of early C19 buildings around the Market Square.

Listing NGR: SX8770051416

External Links

• Wikidata Q26491957

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)