Description

BRIXHAM

SX9256SE KING STREET, Lower Brixham 1946-1/11/171 (South East side) 10/01/75 No.69 Kings House

GV II

Includes: Nos.1, 1A AND 2 BAY VIEW STEPS Lower Brixham. House, now divided into 4 flats. Possibly late C18/early C19, remodelled early/mid C19. Solid rendered walls; right side wall partly slate-hung in upper storeys. Slated roof. 2 brick chimneys on gable-end to right, 1 to left. 3 storeys with basement and garret. 3 windows wide. Ground storey has 6-panelled centre door, the 2 bottom panels flush; lion-head knocker; 3-paned fanlight. Flanking Doric columns with fluted capitals having triglyphed sections of frieze above; cornice or pediment missing. At either side is a bow window with 8-paned sashes. Across the tops of both bows and doorway is a later pent-roof. At left-hand end is a cellar-entrance with double plank doors. Second-storey windows have moulded architraves, friezes and cornices; 2-paned sashes, except that the glazing-bar is missing in the lower left-hand and upper right-hand sashes. In third storey the left-hand window has a moulded architrave and 2-paned sashes; the other 2 windows have been amalgamated into a single metal-framed C20 window. Flanking the 2 upper storeys are panelled pilasters standing on small mouldings at first-floor level. Deep flat eaves-cornice, but with a row of small brackets beneath it, as if for an earlier cornice. Right side wall has small doorway with flanking pilasters and cornice, the pilasters incised with key-pattern.

Listing NGR: SX9273156265

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