Burton Villa

BURTON VILLA, BURTON STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195178
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:
Burton Villa
Statutory Address:
BURTON VILLA, BURTON STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195178
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:
Burton Villa
Statutory Address 1:
BURTON VILLA, BURTON 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BURTON VILLA, 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:
SX 92164 55531

Details

BRIXHAM

SX9255 BURTON STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/7/78 (North West side) 10/01/75 Burton Villa

II

Large detached house. Early C19. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slated roof. Rendered chimney on right side wall. Double-fronted and probably double-depth plan. 2 storeys with later garret. 3-window front in Picturesque Gothic style. Centre doorway with half-glazed, leaded double-doors. Windows with incurving, pointed arches. Patterned glazing with margin-panes. Deep, flat eaves-cornice. Large late C20 dormer. Across front of ground storey a long verandah with ogee-leaded roof; slender iron columns, each end with arches of patterned ironwork. Right side and rear walls (visible from Burton Villa Close) have plain early C19 detail. Side-wall has a short round-arched upper-storey window with small-paned glazing; ground-storey window with 6 over 6 panes. Rear wall has 4 sash-windows, all 6-paned: 1 in ground storey, 3 above. Also 3 hipped dormers with slate-hung sides and barred sashes: 4 over 8 panes. Of a type associated with the Gillard family in Brixham; Mr Gillard built the villas for himself and daughters viz: Eveleigh House, Doctors Road, and Norton House and Aylmer, Milton Street (qv).

Listing NGR: SX9216455531

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
383563
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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