Description

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 CLARENCE HILL
673-1/8/74 (South side)
23/10/72 No.31
and attached rear boundary railings
(Formerly Listed as:
CLARENCE HILL
Nos.27-35 (Odd))

GV II

House. c1840-50. Stucco on stone rubble; end stacks have
plastered
brick chimneyshafts with old pots; slate roof.
PLAN: Double-depth plan, one room wide.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 2-window front in a restrained
Domestic Tudor style. Doorway to right has stucco Tuscan
doorcase; flat pilasters with moulded entablature on shallow
console brackets. Doorway is recessed up a couple of stone
steps, and contains original good panelled door; upper fielded
panels (top 2 now glazed) and bottom panels have vertical
mouldings, narrow plain overlight above. Windows, with
Tudor-style hoodmoulds and blocks under the sills, contain
horned 12-pane sashes. Replacement moulded timber eaves
cornice. Parallel roof between adjoining properties. C20
flat-roofed dormers front and back. Plaster rear elevation is
missing its original stucco detail, see No.29 (qv). 2-bay
arcade to basement, with central circular column with moulded
capital, now filled with C20 windows. Tall 12-pane sashes
(unusual horizontal glazing pattern, only 2 panes wide) to
ground floor and replacement sashes without glazing bars to
the first floor. Probably replacement timber eaves cornice.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: stone revetment wall above Browns Hill
surmounted by original cast-iron spear-headed railings.
Part of a prominent terrace overlooking the town.

Listing NGR: SX8759751483

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503584

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]