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Latitude: 50.4318 / 50°25'54"N
Longitude: -3.6896 / 3°41'22"W
OS Eastings: 280092
OS Northings: 60465
OS Grid: SX800604
Mapcode National: GBR QL.MCSG
Mapcode Global: FRA 375X.6DM
Plus Code: 9C2RC8J6+P4
Entry Name: 51, BUTTERWALK (See details for further address information)
Listing Date: 7 January 1952
Last Amended: 16 March 1978
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1236209
English Heritage Legacy ID: 427051
ID on this website: 101236209
Location: Totnes, South Hams, Devon, TQ9
County: Devon
District: South Hams
Civil Parish: Totnes
Built-Up Area: Totnes
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Totnes St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
Tagged with: Building
1.
5180 HIGH STREET
(Butterwalk)
No 51
SX 8060 SW 1/67D 7.1.52.
II GV
2.
Late C16 or early C17 merchant's house of "deux corps de batiments" type, much altered,
with the former kitchen block and small court incorporated as part of the main house
in the late C19 when the ground floor was converted for use as a shop. In the C19
the house was used as a brush factory. The range at the rear was a candle factory.
Refronted mid C19. 3½ storeys. 1st floor with 5 bays. Welsh slate roof with ornamental
cresting. ½ hipped gable to street. Timber-framed, slate-hung front with jettied
attic. Moulded bargeboard with pineapple drops at eaves. 1st floor with pilasters
between window bays carrying fascia. Ground floor loggia over pavement carried on
granite Tuscan columns. 2nd floor and attic with architraved sash windows. Modern
shopfront. Masonry party walls, that on west side fronting former open passage
to No 53 and retaining blocked, 2 light window with moulded reveals amd mullion
and wrought iron stay bars. 1st floor room with remains of original square- headed
fireplace with moulded surround and relieving arch over; part of Elizabethan decorated
plaster ceiling with ribwork.
Listing NGR: SX8009260465
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