Description

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 LOWER STREET
673-1/8/160 (East side)
14/09/49 Nos.25 AND 25A
Island House
(Formerly Listed as:
LOWER STREET
(East side)
Nos.21-24 (Consecutive)
and No.25 Island House)

GV II

Two houses, now divided into flats. Probably mid C19 with
earlier origins. Plastered walls, partly stone rubble, partly
timber-framing; rear and left end stack and front lateral
stacks with painted brick chimneyshafts; slate roof.
PLAN: Entrance front facing south towards Bayards Cove has a
3-room plan with main entrance left of centre to the stairs.
Right (east) return has 2-room wing.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; irregular 3-window front of horned 4-pane
sashes. Doorway left of centre contains a part-glazed 6-panel
door behind a C20 glazed porch, and doorway at the right end
contains a C20 part-glazed door behind another glazed porch.
The right (east) return is jettied at first-floor level over
the river. It has a 2-window front including a 12-pane sash at
ground-floor level and horned 4-pane sashes to the upper
floors. Roof is continuous with those of the adjoining
properties and is hipped on the corner.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to be of interest.
One of a good group of listed buildings on the Ferry Slip, at
the southern end of Lower Street and at the northern end of
Bayards Cove. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SX8785051072

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580529

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)