Description

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 FOSS STREET
673-1/8/138 (West side)
23/10/72 No.11
(Formerly Listed as:
FOSS STREET
(West side)
Nos.11 AND 11A)

GV II

Shop with house above. c1820-30, some late C19 and C20
alterations. Mixed construction; stone rubble party walls and
plastered timber-framed fronts; rear and right end stacks with
brick chimneyshafts, one rendered and both with old pots;
slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window first-floor range. Plastered
front is lightly blocked out as ashlar. Ground floor has late
C19 timber 2-bay shop front without glazing bars and left end
corner has large canted doorway with bottom-panelled glazed
double doors and flanking pilasters. Shop front continues
another 2 bays on return wall to Union Street. Panelled
pilasters each end of the shop front with large shaped
brackets to the fascia. At right end front, doorway to house
contains late C20 panelled door under plain overlight. First
floor has large sash windows, horned 4-pane sash to left but
original 12-pane sash to right, and second floor has C20
casements. Moulded timber eaves cornice carried on pairs of
modillions and pediment above. Hipped roof. Moulded cornice
carried round return to Union Street, but here there are no
paired modillions. Blind windows to Union Street.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to be of interest.
HISTORY: Foss Street represents the line of a medieval dam
which included a tidal mill. The mill pond was filled in and
developed around 1820-30, although houses had been built along
the Foss from the C17 onwards.

Listing NGR: SX8770251433

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584720

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Old House Care and Repair