Description

BRIXHAM

SX95NW BERRY HEAD ROAD, Berry Head
1946-1/2/19 (North side)
07/11/86 Nos.14-32 (Even)
including front garden walls and
railings

GV II

5 linked pairs of semi-detached cottages, originally built for
coastguards. c1889. Squared rough-faced Devonian limestone
rubble. Slated roofs. Stone chimney on each end wall; masonry
as in house walls, but with entablatures of dressed limestone.
Cottages seem to be 1 room wide and 2 rooms deep with a shared
entrance-porch in the centre of each pair. Low,
single-storeyed outbuildings with flat roofs link each pair to
the next, and to the Coastguard Station at No.12 (qv). No.26
has been extended to the left in late C20. Houses are
2-storeyed. Each pair 4 windows wide, except that Nos 26 & 28
are now 6 windows wide. Gabled entrance-porches with chamfered
copings and kneelers; quatrefoil panel in gable with a small
triple-arched panel in the apex. Plank doors; with
wreath-knockers at Nos 18, 26, 28 & 30. Flat-headed windows
with dressed stone surrounds. 6-paned sashes at Nos 14 & 16,
22 (upper sashes only), 26 (ground storey only), and 28-32.
Other houses have plain sashes, except that No.24 has
aluminium-framed casement and No.26 wood-framed ones in upper
storey. Porches have small windows with 4-paned wood
casements, except at Nos 20 & 24. Subsidiary features: in
front of the whole range of houses is a low stone wall having
a chamfered limestone coping and an iron railing with simple
pointed uprights. Nos 14-20 & 24 have gates to match.

Listing NGR: SX9359856718

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585770

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