Description

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 FOSS STREET
673-1/8/145 (East side)
28/10/86 No.24
(Formerly Listed as:
FOSS STREET
Nos.22 AND 24)

GV II

Shop with house above. Probably mid C19. Mixed construction;
stone rubble side walls, plastered timber-framed front; left
end stack with brick chimneyshafts and old pots; slate roof.
PLAN: House one room wide and 2 rooms deep.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; one-window front. Plastered front lightly
blocked out as ashlar. Ground floor has full-width timber shop
front, certainly C19 if not original. Doorway recessed to
right contains bottom-panelled glazed door with plain
overlight. 2-bay shop front without glazing bars to right.
Fascia flanked by shaped brackets featuring carved
wheatsheaves (presumably it was a bakery). Windows above are
horned 4-pane sashes, smaller on the second floor than the
first. Plain eaves. Roof hipped to left.
INTERIOR: Only plain carpentry detail of the shop inspected.
HISTORY: Foss Street marks the line of a medieval dam which
included a tidal mill. The mill pool was filled in and
developed around 1820-1830, although houses were built along
the Foss from the C17 onwards.

Listing NGR: SX8770451470

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504568

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)