8, FOSS STREET
8, FOSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197526
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 8, FOSS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8, FOSS STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197526
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 8, FOSS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, FOSS 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:
- 8, FOSS 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 87723 51419
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX874510 FOSS STREET 673-1/8/136 (East side) No.8
GV II
Shop with house above. Probably c1830-40 with possible older origins, some late C19 and C20 modernisation. Mixed construction; stone rubble with plastered timber-framed front; stone rubble right end stack but chimneyshafts not visible; slate roof. PLAN: 2 rooms deep with left-hand side passage. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; one-window range. Plaster front is lightly blocked out as ashlar. Mid/late C19 timber shop front much-rebuilt in the late C20, comprising C20 shop window with glazing bars, recessed doorway to left containing C20 glazed door under plain overlight. Each end are mid/late C19 timber panelled pilasters with large brackets carved as acanthus scroll consoles to the fascia which is carried round the base of the first-floor oriel. Bowed oriel, flat-roofed with timber modillion cornice and now contains C20 casement windows. Second floor has two C20 casements without glazing bars. Timber modillion cornice to parallel roof which contains front gabled dormer window. INTERIOR: Ground-floor partitions removed and plaster stripped to reveal C19 joisting and stone walls with plain fireplaces under brick segmental arches. Original stick-baluster stair. HISTORY: Foss Street follows the line of a medieval dyke which dammed a tidal creek and included a tidal mill. The mill pool was filled in and developed around 1820-30, although houses were built along the Foss from the C17 onwards.
Listing NGR: SX8772551420
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387256
- 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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