2, SOUTH EMBANKMENT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197574
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: 2, SOUTH EMBANKMENT
Statutory Address:: 2, SOUTH EMBANKMENT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197574
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: 2, SOUTH EMBANKMENT
Statutory Address 1:: 2, SOUTH EMBANKMENT

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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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:: 2, SOUTH EMBANKMENT

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 87858 51319

Details

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 SOUTH EMBANKMENT 673-1/8/225 (West side) No.2

GV II

Shop, now restaurant, with house above. Between 1889-1893, probably by EH Back for CR Cranford. Mixed construction; stone rubble with brick and Bathstone dressings and timber-framed show front; stacks in the party walls with brick chimneyshafts; flat roof. PLAN: Double-depth, 2 rooms wide with entrance lobby and stairs to left. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 2-window range. Ornamental show front in a distinctive Elizabethan style. Timber-framed with jettied floors, projecting bays, balustraded balconies. Ground-floor left is the house doorway; painted stone with a moulded surround. Shop front is largely original with central recessed doorway. Symmetrical 2-window front above. Balconies across both floors. Second-floor balcony is 4 bays in same style as those next door at No.1 (qv). First-floor balcony interrupted by projecting bay windows in different style and may be secondary. Bays contain ovolo-moulded 2-light mullion-and-transom windows, larger lower lights containing original horned sashes without glazing bars, surrounded by Jacobean-style pargetting which includes the initials RC, thought to belong to CR Cranford. Similar windows on the second floor with glazed doors alongside onto the balcony. Timber moulded cornice above. Framing creates narrow panels which are slate-hung; full-width slates with toothed edges, alternately grey and purple. INTERIOR: Contains original detail including the staircase and, at ground-floor level, papier-mache frieze.

Listing NGR: SX8785451318

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Legacy System number:: 387339
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.