Description

PAIGNTON

SX8860 FISHER STREET
1947-1/5/30 (North East side)
10/01/75 No.9
(Formerly Listed as:
FISHER STREET
(East side)
No.9
and garage adjoining)

GV II

House. c1700 with C20 alterations. Rendered; thatched roof
with plain ridge, half-hipped at left end, gabled at right
end. Stack with rendered shaft.
PLAN: On a prominent corner site between Fisher Street and
Curledge Street. Single-depth main block, 2-rooms-wide, the
left-hand room formerly heated from a front lateral stack, the
right room heated from a right end stack.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front, lateral
stack to left of centre with truncated shaft. C20 half-glazed
front door alongside to right with C20 tiled porch hood. C20
bow window to right. Ground-floor window right and 3
first-floor windows glazed with C20 two-light casements with
square leaded panes, probably in early embrasures. The left
return, facing Curledge Street, has 2 ground and one
first-floor window.
INTERIOR: Largely modernised including a C20 stair. Features
of c1700 include a 2-panel door on the first floor and a
chamfered stopped fireplace lintel to the right-hand room
stack. Photographs in the possession of the owner show a fine
C18 chimney-piece which was formerly associated with the
lateral stack, suggesting that the left-hand room was the
parlour. Roof not inspected but said to consist of A-frame
trusses.

Listing NGR: SX8858260361

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502860

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