Numbers 5, 7 (Beams Cottage) And 9

5, BURTON STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195177
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:
Numbers 5, 7 (Beams Cottage) And 9
Statutory Address:
5, BURTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195177
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
18-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:
Numbers 5, 7 (Beams Cottage) And 9
Statutory Address 1:
5, BURTON STREET
Statutory Address 2:
9, BURTON STREET
Statutory Address 3:
BEAMS COTTAGE, 7, BURTON STREET

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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:
5, BURTON STREET
Statutory Address:
9, BURTON STREET
Statutory Address:
BEAMS COTTAGE, 7, BURTON 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:
SX9239555565

Details

SX9255
1946-1/7/73
10/01/75

BRIXHAM
BURTON STREET, Higher Brixham
(North side)
Nos.5, 7 AND 9, Beams Cottage (No.7)
(Formerly Listed as:
BURTON STREET, Higher Brixham
Nos.5, 7 AND 9)

II

Row of 3 cottages lying at right-angles to the street. Nos 5 &
7 probably C17 or earlier, remodelled early/mid C19; No.9
added or rebuilt at same period. Solid rendered walls. Slated
roofs; No.9 hipped to Burton Street. Large, old rendered
chimney on right gable of No.5; a later one at rear.
Part-rendered, part-stone rubble chimney on right gable of
No.9; rendered chimney on left side wall. 2 storeys, No.9 with
basement. Nos 5 & 7 are a mirrored pair, 4 windows wide, with
adjacent doorways in the centre. Door at No.5 is C19; 2 flush
panels below, 1 large glazed panel above. Late C19 canopy with
shaped brackets, extending over both doors. Windows have C20
wood casements, except that the ground-storey window at No.7
has a canted bay, slightly recessed within an earlier opening.
Deep, flat eaves-cornice. No.9 has 2-window front to Burton
Street with a blank space to right where symmetry would demand
a third window. Doorway set in slight centre projection with
flat, deep eaves-cornice breaking forward round it.
Round-arched window above doorway has 2-paned sashes. Windows
to left have C20 wood frames. 2 similar windows in side wall
to right.

Listing NGR: SX9239555565

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
383558
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.

Ordnance survey map of Numbers 5, 7 (Beams Cottage) And 9

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