15, HIGHER STREET
15, HIGHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197531
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 15, HIGHER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 15, HIGHER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197531
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 15, HIGHER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15, HIGHER 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:
- 15, HIGHER 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 87784 51240
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX874510 HIGHER STREET 673-1/8/153 (East side) 23/10/72 No.15
GV II
House. Probably early C19, with a possible earlier core, since house occupies a medieval plot. Mixed construction; roughcast stone rubble with plastered timber-framed front; end stacks with one rendered and one exposed brick chimneyshaft, both with old pots; slate roof. PLAN: 2 rooms wide, one room deep, with central passage to rear stairs. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with cellar; 2-window first-floor range. Irregular front. Ground floor has timber pilasters flanking central round-headed doorway with C20 part-glazed door under original fanlight with radial glazing bars. A plain C20 window each side. Timber band at first-floor level and wall above is straight and oversails the ground-floor recess. First floor has C19 horned 4-pane sash to left and only other front window is a tiny casement to second-floor centre. Right end wall includes 2 more horned 4-pane sashes. Timber eaves cornice with modillion frieze. Roof is gable-ended. INTERIOR: Includes some plain C19 detail including a stick-baluster stair. This house forms part of a fine group of listed buildings in Higher Street which was, in the medieval period, the main trading street in Dartmouth.
Listing NGR: SX8778451240
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387273
- 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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