6, FORE STREET
6, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195158
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 6, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 6, FORE STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-06-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/04727/34
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195158
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 6, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, FORE 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 6, FORE 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 92370 56034
Details
BRIXHAM
SX9256SW FORE STREET, Lower Brixham 1946-1/10/146 (North West side) No.6
GV II
Large house, now shops. Early C19; possibly a remodelling of an earlier house. Solid rendered front. Top of left side wall of stone rubble with red-brick gable. Slated roof; rear slope appears to be more steeply pitched than front. Double-fronted and double-depth with staircase at rear centre. 3 storeys with garret. 3 widely-spaced windows wide. Ground storey has wide centre doorway with bead-moulded surround; flanking pilaster strips, moulded cornice on consoles. Upper-storey windows have sashes with horns; sashes in third storey 2-paned. Second-storey windows have moulded cornices on consoles. Raised quoins in all 3 storeys. Deep flat eaves-cornice, with mouldings at rear of 1 soffit. Small hipped dormer in centre of roof; 2-light wood casement. Matching dormer with pent-roof on rear roof slope. INTERIOR not inspected, but seems to have original staircase with boarded-in balustrade. The house occupies an important position near the junction with Bolton Street and New Road.
Listing NGR: SX9237056034
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383616
- 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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