Description

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 SOUTH EMBANKMENT 673-1/8/224 (West side) 23/10/72 No.1 York House

GV II

Shops with houses above. Dated 1893 probably by EH Back, the borough surveyor. Mixed construction; timber-framed show fronts with other walls of grey limestone rubble with red brick and some Bathstone dressings; axial stack, 2 rear lateral stacks and a right end stack with tall red brick chimneyshafts in Elizabethan style and C19 pots; tall gabled slate roof. PLAN: 4-room plan with 2 large shops (now knocked together). EXTERIOR: 4 storeys. Ornamental show fronts in Elizabethan style. Timber-framed with jettied floors, projecting bays, balustraded balconies and gabled roofs. North front onto The Quay has 2 wide timber shop windows, mostly original with continuous clerestorey filled with small rectangular panes. First-floor jetty and balconies shelter the shop fronts and are supported on shaped timber brackets. Symmetrical 4-window front above, the outer bays projecting forward containing ovolo-moulded 3-light mullion-and-transom windows, larger lower lights containing original horned sashes without glazing bars. Inner bays with similar 2-light windows. Jetties have shaped joist ends projecting through moulded cornices and shaped brackets on the corners. Framing has narrow panels; criss-cross braces under windows and slate-hung elsewhere (single full-width slates with toothed edges, alternately grey and purple). Gables over windows with diagonal bracing and bargeboards have trellis pattern and finials. East front gable end onto South Embankment in same style, but a little more ornate including a canted bay to the first floor. House door to left in a red brick section. Doorway and side light of painted stone and ovolo-moulded, containing a 6-panel door and overlight. Datestone to left. Gable end of west wall is grey limestone rubble containing Bathstone windows. INTERIOR: Upper floors not inspected but likely to be of interest. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: P.326).

Listing NGR: SX8785251326

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)