Description

PAIGNTON

SX8860 WINNER STREET
1947-1/5/138 (West side)
10/01/75 Nos.79-87 (Odd)
(Formerly Listed as:
WINNER STREET
Nos.77-81 (Odd))
(Formerly Listed as:
WINNER STREET
(West side)
Nos.83-87 (Odd))

GV II

Shops with accommodation over. 2 building phases: Nos 79-81
and Nos 83-87. c1830s. Rendered with some traces of blocking
out to No.89; turnerised slate roof to Nos 83-87, hipped at
right end; left-end stack with brick shaft; right gable end of
No.87 slate-hung. Stacks with rendered shafts.
PLAN: Nos 83-87 (odd) L-plan with rear service wing at
right-angles.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 2:2-bay front. Ground floor of Nos 79-81
retains the remains of a fine and rare c1830s shopfront: 3
reeded Ionic columns support an entablature with projecting
fascia with moulded cornice. Doorway to passage to the left,
shop doorway in centre flanked by C20 2-pane plate glass shop
windows which cant in towards the centre. First and 2nd-floor
windows with C20 replacement casements. Nos 83-87 (odd) have
C20 shopfronts with a recessed plank door with narrow
overlight to a passage between Nos 83 and 85. 3 first and 2
second-floor windows. Left-hand windows small-pane casements,
2 right-hand bays early C19 sixteen-pane sashes.
INTERIOR: Ground floors modernised, features of interest may
survive elsewhere.
HISTORY: Winner Street was the main medieval thoroughfare in
Paignton, named after the bishops' vineyard.

Listing NGR: SX8846260623

Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)