2, HORNHILL, 10, FAIRFAX PLACE
10, FAIRFAX PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208871
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 2, HORNHILL, 10, FAIRFAX PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 10, FAIRFAX PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208871
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 2, HORNHILL, 10, FAIRFAX PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 10, FAIRFAX PLACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 2, HORNHILL
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:
- 10, FAIRFAX PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 2, HORNHILL
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:
- SX8780051256
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/11/2012
SX874510
673-1/8/118
14/09/49
DARTMOUTH
FAIRFAX PLACE
(West side)
No.10
(Formerly listed as No.10 The Scarlet Geranium)
GV
II
Includes: No.2 HORNHILL.
Merchant's house, now cafeteria with accommodation above.
Medieval site. Late C16/early C17 with early C18 improvements,
and C19 and C20 modernisations. Mixed construction; stone
rubble side walls with timber-framed walls front and back
(mostly plastered); stone rubble stacks in both side walls
with rendered chimneyshafts with some old pots; slate roof.
PLAN: End onto the street, probably originally 2 rooms deep
with side passage to right. Present rear kitchen is infilling
former courtyard.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, originally 3 storeys; one-window range.
Ends of original side walls corbel out to carry jettied second
floor indicating the probable survival of early carpentry.
Ground floor has a recessed C20 shop front in C18 style; bowed
windows with small panes and glazing bars on low brick walls
and part-glazed door right of centre. First-floor level also
C20, but in C17 style with exposed replica framing and oriel
containing 3 forward horned 12-pane sashes. Plain plaster
above the jetty. Second floor has a row of similar horned
12-pane sashes and third floor has a tripartite sash with
central horned 12-pane sash. Plain eaves to hipped front end
of the roof. Left side wall is painted stone rubble to
Hornhill. It includes C19 features, a first-floor doorway
containing part-glazed double doors under a tall overlight and
higher up a horned 12-pane sash. Rear gable end contains C20
windows and plaster probably over C17 or C18 framing.
INTERIOR: Few early features exposed, mostly the result of
C18/C20 alteration. Main stair of 3 phases - C19 to first
floor, lined with painted matchboard and including a C17
panelled door from the ground floor; early C18 first-floor
balustrade with moulded flat handrail and turned balusters
with blocks; then the original newel stair rising round a
mast-like newel and lined with good late C16 linenfold
panelling. Throughout most of the building the structural
carpentry is boxed in or hidden behind later plaster.
Second-floor front room has original beam ceiling clad with
early C18 moulded plaster, and probably early C18
chimneypiece. Roof not inspected.
HISTORY: The line of Lower Street was originally the
waterfront. Land to the east was reclaimed in the late C16 and
thereafter it became a main trading street connecting the old
quay at Bayards Cove with the C17 New Quay, around the present
Boat Float.
Listing NGR: SX8780051256
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387240
- 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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