Watermans Arms Public House

WATERMANS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, 105, DREW STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195154
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:
Watermans Arms Public House
Statutory Address:
WATERMANS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, 105, DREW STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195154
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:
Watermans Arms Public House
Statutory Address 1:
WATERMANS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, 105, DREW STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WATERMANS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, 105, DREW STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Torbay (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Brixham
National Grid Reference:
SX 92014 55124

Details

BRIXHAM

SX9255 DREW STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/7/104 (North West side) 10/01/75 No.105 Watermans Arms Public House

GV II

Public house. C17, remodelled early C19. Front range has solid rendered walls; rear wing of exposed stone rubble. Slated roofs. Rendered chimney on each end wall of front range and on rear wall of wing. 3 storeys. 3 windows wide. Doorway, roughly in centre, has 6-panelled door, the 2 bottom panels flush, the 2 top panels now glazed; flat wooden hood on shaped brackets. To left of each of ground and second storeys a 14-paned sash window. To left of door a small 6-paned sash-window. Above it a small 8-paned one. To right of ground and second storeys a slightly projecting wooden block of windows, 2 per storey with plain sashes. Third storey has 3 windows with 6-paned sashes. Raised band above ground storey. Pilaster-strip with round-headed panel to left of second and third storeys. Left end wall has a 1-light wood casement of 3 panes to left of ground storey. Rear wing, fronting Horsepool Street, is 2-storeyed and 1 window wide. Late C20 plank door to right of ground storey. Mid C19 shop window to left: 6-paned with flanking pilasters and entablature. 2-paned sash-window in upper storey. Boxed eaves-cornice. To the left, the rear gate; wide with segmental arch of voussoirs, double plank doors. INTERIOR: only ground-floor bar inspected. This occupies the whole front range. To left of doorway, C17 chamfered beams with scroll-stops.

Listing NGR: SX9201455124

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
383606
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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