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1, Foss Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Dartmouth, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.3517 / 50°21'6"N

Longitude: -3.5796 / 3°34'46"W

OS Eastings: 287715

OS Northings: 51394

OS Grid: SX877513

Mapcode National: GBR QS.R9Y8

Mapcode Global: FRA 38D3.F8Q

Plus Code: 9C2R9C2C+M4

Entry Name: 1, Foss Street

Listing Date: 23 October 1972

Last Amended: 23 February 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1208977

English Heritage Legacy ID: 387252

ID on this website: 101208977

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 673-1/8/132 (West side) 23/10/72 No.1 (Formerly Listed as: FOSS STREET (West side) Nos.1 AND 3)

GV II

Shop with house above. Probably late C18 (C20 date of 1781 on front), with some C19 and C20 modernisation. Mixed construction; stone rubble with plastered timber-framed front; no visible chimneyshafts; slate roof. PLAN: One room wide and 2 rooms deep with passage to left. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window first-floor range. Plaster front lightly blocked out as ashlar. Late C19/early C20 shop front with some later modernisation, 3 lights separated by slender glazing bars. Shop door in canted recess and house door recessed at left end. House has 6-panel door under plain overlight. Central horned 4-pane sash windows to the upper floors, a pair to the first floor and single one to the second floor. Plain eaves to parallel gable-ended roof. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: Foss Street follows the line of a medieval dyke which dammed a tidal creek and included a tidal mill. The mill pool was filled in and developed around 1820-30, although houses were built along the Foss from the C17 onwards.

Listing NGR: SX8771251399

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