ALMA AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY ADJOINING TO SOUTH

ALMA AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY ADJOINING TO SOUTH, 19, BROWNS HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197539
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1991
List Entry Name:: ALMA AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY ADJOINING TO SOUTH
Statutory Address:: ALMA AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY ADJOINING TO SOUTH, 19, BROWNS HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197539
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1991
List Entry Name:: ALMA AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY ADJOINING TO SOUTH
Statutory Address 1:: ALMA AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY ADJOINING TO SOUTH, 19, BROWNS HILL

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ALMA AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY ADJOINING TO SOUTH, 19, BROWNS HILL

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 87573 51470

Details

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 BROWNS HILL 673-1/8/50 (South West side) 20/11/91 No.19 Alma and attached boundary wall and gateway adjoining to south

GV II

House. Early C19 with minor subsequent modernisation. Plastered walls, mostly stone rubble but timber-framed stair turret; end and axial stacks with plastered brick chimneyshafts and old pots; slate roof. PLAN: Single-depth plan on a wedge-shaped site, 3 rooms wide. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic. Nearly-symmetrical 4-window garden front. Plastered front lightly blocked out as ashlar with stucco quoins. Approach through right (east) boundary wall to full-width verandah; 4 bays with half bays each end, supported on iron columns with scrolled brackets and some front iron railings to front of right end. Both front doorways contain original 6-panel doors, but main door (left of centre) is round-headed with a radial pattern of glazing bars, a margin of zig-zag pattern and incorporating orange glass. 12-pane sashes to ground floor and secondary French windows to right end room. First floor has central tall 12-pane sashes with original ornamental cast-iron balconies, flanked by secondary canted bays containing front horned 4-pane sashes. Original 3/6-pane sashes to the second floor. Deep eaves on shaped timber brackets to parallel roof, hipped each end. More horned 4-pane sashes on right end. Rear stair block has a round-headed window with glazing bars below a 16-pane sash to the top landing. INTERIOR: Well-preserved with a good deal of original detail including a geometric stick-baluster stair, chimneypieces, panelled doors and moulded plaster cornices. BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY: Garden eastern boundary has a tall plastered stone wall containing an elegant doorway onto the verandah; projecting flat stucco surround with moulded entablature and pediment on console brackets, and containing a door of 2 vertical round-headed panels.

Listing NGR: SX8757351470

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Legacy System number:: 387175
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.