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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585807

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (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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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)