Description

BRIXHAM

SX9256SE KING STREET, Lower Brixham
1946-1/11/174 (South East side)
10/01/75 Nos.83 AND 85
including front area walls, railings
and gate
(Formerly Listed as:
KING STREET
No.83)

GV II

House; its service wing now divided off as a separate house
(No.85). Early/mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slated
roof. Rendered chimney on left side wall.
House 3 storeys; former service range 2 storeys. Each is 3
windows wide. House has symmetrical front with round-arched
central doorway with cornice on consoles; 2-panelled double
doors with knocker and old metal letterbox; fanlight with
radial bars terminating in small circles. Windows have barred
sashes; 6 over 6 panes in ground and second storeys, 3 over 6
panes in third storey. Rusticated pilaster-strip at each end
of front. Raised sill-band in second storey. Deep, flat
eaves-cornice with a shaped bracket at each corner; gutter
decorated with lion-heads. Sill-band and eaves-cornice
continued round both side walls, which have no openings.
Service wing has late C20 small-paned wood casements and is
set well back from the front of the main house.
Subsidiary features: the buildings stand well above street
level, the area in front of them having a painted stone rubble
retaining wall. This is continued upwards to form stone piers
at the left-hand and in the middle. From the piers original
iron railings with moulded heads to the uprights span the
whole frontage, returning at the right-hand end to protect the
head of the steps up from the street, where there is a
matching gate. At the bottom of the steps there was originally
another gate; a tall, square pier of painted stone rubble
survives on the right-hand side, with the base of another on
the left. Part of the retaining wall has been rendered,
apparently in late C20 when garage doors, window and house
door were inserted. At the left-hand end is a doorway with
brick jamb and segmental arch, probably inserted in late C19.

Listing NGR: SX9278056293

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505214

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