4, MARKET STREET
4, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197499
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 4, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 4, MARKET STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-07-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/05087/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197499
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 4, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4, MARKET 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:
- 4, MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dartmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 87697 51415
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX874510 MARKET STREET 673-1/8/171 (East side) 23/10/72 No.4
GV II
House with shop to ground-floor front. c1830. Mixed construction; stone sidewalls and timber-framed front, show fronts with stucco; front lateral stack in party wall and rear end stack with rendered brick chimneyshafts and some old pots; slate roof. PLAN: House built end onto the street, 2 rooms deep with stair between. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window front. Elegant front, bowed between pilaster strips, the stucco lightly blocked as ashlar. Ground-floor shop front with central doorway containing part-glazed double doors under plain overlight, single display window each side with top glazing bars and flanking pilasters with top scroll consoles. First floor has original tall 6/9-pane sashes with small cast-iron balconies. Second floor has 12-pane sashes, centre window blind. Very deep eaves with plain soffit and hipped roof with canted sides. Left side elevation to Union Street is 3 bays and includes some blind windows as well as 12- and 16-pane sashes. Central round-headed doorway with flat stucco architrave containing original panelled door and fanlight with patterned glazing bars. Round-headed ground-floor sash windows with the same unusual patterns of glazing bars to the upper sashes. INTERIOR: Good original detail including open-string stick-baluster stair with mahogany handrail and curtail step. HISTORY: The area was developed in the late 1820s and 1830s on the site of the infilled tidal mill pool and contains a good group of early C19 buildings around the Market Square.
Listing NGR: SX8770051416
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387291
- 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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