Description

SX9255
1946-1/7/79
10/01/75

BRIXHAM
CASTOR ROAD, Higher Brixham
(East side)
Castor House and Castor Stores

GV
II

House, now house and shop; said by 1975 list description to be
a former farmhouse. Early C19; probably a remodelling of a C18
or earlier building. Solid rendered walls. Steeply-pitched
hipped slated roof. Rendered chimney on left side wall.
Painted brick chimney on hip to right. Double-fronted and
double-depth plan, with small rear projection to right. 2
storeys. 3-window front facing north. Late C20 wood glazed
door in centre; late C19 small-paned glazed porch with
coloured margin-panes. At either side an early C20 canted bay
window with lean-to tiled roof; each window has a 4-light wood
casement with transom-lights containing coloured leaded glass.
Upper-storey windows have 6-paned sashes. Right side wall,
facing road, has late C20 shop front in ground storey; 3
windows in upper storey, all with 6-paned sashes, except that
the lower left-hand sash has lost its glazing bars.

Listing NGR: SX9243255265

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503687

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas