Description

BRIXHAM

SX9155 HORSEPOOL STREET, Higher Brixham
1946-1/6/118 (West side)
10/01/75 The Goat House

GV II

Farmhouse, now private house. Late medieval, superficially
altered early or mid C19. Solid roughcast walls; left
gable-end slate-hung. Tiled roof. Red-brick chimney on left
end wall. Rendered chimney with offsets and red-brick shaft on
right end wall. 2 chimneys on rear wall: rendered to left,
red-brick in centre. Probably 3-room cross-passage plan,
judging by position of door. 2 storeys. 4 windows wide. Plank
door with iron wreath-knocker, strap-hinges; flat wooden hood
on concrete brackets. Windows mostly have 3-light wood
casements with 8 panes per light; some have old hinges. Window
to right of doorway differs in having a pair of sash-windows.
INTERIOR: Largely early C18 with later alterations, although a
flagged cross-passage survives, flanked by C18 or later plank
partitions. Right-hand room has open fireplace with renewed
lintel and fragmentary remains of stair turret walls. Probably
early C20 stair in right-hand room. Early C18 two-panel doors
on ground floor and to axial first-floor passage. Roof
construction C18 or later.

Listing NGR: SX9192555196

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585786

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)