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15, Foss Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Dartmouth, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.3522 / 50°21'7"N

Longitude: -3.5799 / 3°34'47"W

OS Eastings: 287697

OS Northings: 51443

OS Grid: SX876514

Mapcode National: GBR QS.R9VX

Mapcode Global: FRA 38D3.F57

Plus Code: 9C2R9C2C+V2

Entry Name: 15, Foss Street

Listing Date: 23 October 1972

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1197527

English Heritage Legacy ID: 387260

ID on this website: 101197527

Location: Dartmouth, South Hams, Devon, TQ6

County: Devon

District: South Hams

Civil Parish: Dartmouth

Built-Up Area: Dartmouth

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Dartmouth Townstal

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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Description


DARTMOUTH

SX874510 FOSS STREET 673-1/8/140 (West side) 23/10/72 No.15

GV II

Shop with house above. Probably early C19, some C20 alterations. Mixed construction; stone rubble party walls and plastered timber-framed front, rear hung with asbestos slate; gable-end stacks with brick chimneyshafts and some old pots; slate roof. PLAN: 2 rooms wide and 2 rooms deep. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; 2-window first-floor range. Plastered front is lightly blocked out as ashlar. Ground-floor front has house doorway to left, now containing C20 glazed door, and rebuilt C19 timber 2-bay shop front with glazing bars and central shop doorway with C19 top-glazed 6-panel door and fanlight with Y-tracery glazing bars. 2-window front above of 16-pane sashes, larger ones on the first floor. Plain eaves to gable-ended roof containing C20 flat-roofed dormer. Left gable end is slate-hung. Rear hung with asbestos slates at second-floor level and includes a C19 four/eight-pane sash window and canted bay at first-floor level. INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to be of interest. HISTORY: Foss Street represents the line of a medieval dam which included a tidal mill. The mill pond was filled in and developed around 1820-30, although houses had been built along the Foss from the C17 onwards.

Listing NGR: SX8769751443

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