17, FOSS STREET
17, FOSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209015
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 17, FOSS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 17, FOSS STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-07-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/04463/35
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209015
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 17, FOSS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17, 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:
- 17, 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 87696 51451
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX874510 FOSS STREET 673-1/8/141 (West side) 23/10/72 No.17
GV II
Shop with house above. Late C18/early C19, some C20 alterations. Mixed construction; stone rubble party walls and slate-hung timber-framed front; right end and rear lateral stacks with brick chimneyshafts and some old pots; slate roof. PLAN: One or 2 rooms wide and 2 rooms deep. EXTERIOR: Ground-floor front has house doorway to left, now containing C20 part-glazed door, and altered late C19 timber 2-bay shop front with glazing bars and central shop doorway. Slate-hung above with 2-window front of 12-pane sashes. Plain eaves to roof between taller buildings. Rear also slate-hung and includes 12-pane sashes. INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to be of interest. HISTORY: Foss Street represents the line of a medieval dam which included a tidal mill. The mill pond was filled in and developed around 1820-30, although houses had been built along the Foss from the C17 onwards.
Listing NGR: SX8769651451
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387261
- 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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