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Latitude: 50.3877 / 50°23'15"N
Longitude: -3.5231 / 3°31'23"W
OS Eastings: 291819
OS Northings: 55306
OS Grid: SX918553
Mapcode National: GBR QX.80FF
Mapcode Global: FRA 38H0.R8M
Plus Code: 9C2R9FQG+3Q
Entry Name: Hill House Nursing Home Including Front Wall and Gate Piers
Listing Date: 10 January 1975
Last Amended: 18 October 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1210005
English Heritage Legacy ID: 383636
ID on this website: 101210005
Location: Higher Brixham, Torbay, Devon, TQ5
County: Torbay
Civil Parish: Brixham
Built-Up Area: Brixham
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Brixham St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
Tagged with: Architectural structure
BRIXHAM
SX9155 HORSEPOOL STREET, Higher Brixham
1946-1/6/114 (West side)
10/01/75 No.22
Hill House Nursing Home including
front wall and gate piers
(Formerly Listed as:
HORSEPOOL STREET, Higher Brixham
(West side)
Hill House and Hill Cottage)
GV II
Detached house, now nursing home. C16 or C17, altered C17/C18
and mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Tiled roof with crested
ridge-tiles. 3 old red-brick chimneys on main range to right.
Small rendered chimney on left end wall of secondary range to
left. Large stone rubble chimney on rear wall of main range.
Plan: Main range with rear wing to left. Shorter secondary
range abutting left end wall of main range.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Main range 6 windows wide. Doorway at
left end of ground storey; trellised wood porch; 6-panelled
door, the 2 bottom panels flush; panelled reveals. Windows
have wood and iron casements. The latter are of 3 and 4 lights
with leaded glazing; they occupy all the ground-storey
windows, also the first second-storey window on the left and
the first 2 on the right. Wood casements are of 2 lights with
4 panes per light. Deep flat eaves-cornice on paired brackets.
Secondary range is 3 windows wide. Small-paned wood casements
in ground and upper storeys; the 2 right-hand upper-storey
windows have gables with plain bargeboards.
Subsidiary features: Front garden has old stone rubble
retaining wall with 2 square rendered gate piers having flat
moulded caps. At right-hand end the wall turns up Mathill
Road, in front of the end wall of the house; this section has
a chamfered coping of stones on edge.
INTERIOR: Chamfered ceiling beams; early C18 staircase with
fluted columns has been truncated and a small section survives
on ground floor only; 1587 fireback in sitting room; fragments
of plank muntin screen. Roof has been raised, trusses of an
eighteenth-century character.
Listing NGR: SX9181955306
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