Description

BRIXHAM

SX9154 MILTON STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/8/243 (South East side) 18/10/49 Nos.40 AND 42 Hearthstone and Hearthstone East inc front garden wall and gate-piers

GV II

Formerly known as: Hearthstone MILTON STREET Higher Brixham. Farmhouse, now divided into 2 private dwellings. C17 or earlier. Rendered stone rubble, possible with some cob. Thatched roof. Large stone rubble chimneys on front wall and rear wing of Hearthstone; 2 more on ridge and left end wall of Hearthstone East. Position of front chimney and adjacent door suggests this is a 3-room-and-cross-passage house with large addition at lower (left) end. Rear wing to right. 2 storeys. 5 windows wide. Both houses have plank doors, probably C20. Two- and 3-light wood casement windows, some with old hinges; diamond-shaped leaded panes. Subsidiary features: in front of the houses a tall stone rubble wall, with square gate piers at Hearthstone East. Entrance to Hearthstone is under a round stone rubble arch, probably C20. 1975 list describes this as 'completely though sympathetically restored in 1930s'.

Listing NGR: SX9177254868

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)