Description

BRIXHAM

SX9154 MILTON STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/8/253 (North West side) 10/01/75 Nos.81-87 (Odd) Old Beams (No.83) and Bakers Lodge (No.87)

GV II

House, probably a former farmhouse, now subdivided. C17 or earlier, probably with later additions. Solid rendered walls. Slated roof of varying ridge heights; hipped to right. Large rendered chimney with offsets on front wall of No.87; tapered cap with added shaft, probably of brick, on top. To left, partly concealed by gabled addition, another rendered chimney with tapered cap, also heightened. To right, sitting on the wall top, a third rendered chimney with tapered cap, also heightened. Probably 3-room-and-cross-passage plan with lengthened lower end to right. Added cross-wing in front of left hand end. 2 storeys. 6 windows wide. No.81 has a 2-paned sash window in each storey, set over to right; late C20 half-glazed wood door to left. No.83 has late C20 plastic door to right, set in a partly-blocked wide opening. Plastic-framed window in each storey. No.85 has a wide doorway with plank door to left, apparently shared with No.87. Late C20 plastic-framed window in ground storey and 2 more in upper storey. No.87 has box-framed sashes with one upright glazing bar per sash (2 in the right-hand ground-storey window): one window in each storey to right, one in each storey of cross-wing. INTERIOR: not inspected. 1975 list description says: 'No.87 retains through passage and original roof structure in part with through purlins, collar to truss which appears to be a raised cruck with crossed blades.'

Listing NGR: SX9156654774

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