20, FOSS STREET
20, FOSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209498
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 20, FOSS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 20, FOSS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209498
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 20, FOSS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, FOSS STREET
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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:
- 20, 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 87714 51462
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX874510 FOSS STREET 673-1/8/143 (East side) 23/10/72 No.20
GV II
Shop with house above, rear block has flats above the shop. Rear block is probably C17 with C19 alterations; front block probably has C17 core and is older than late C19 front, some C20 modernisation. Mixed construction; main window fronts are of plastered timber-framing, others are of stone rubble; stack in party wall with rendered chimneyshafts and some old pots; slate roofs. PLAN: Front block house 2 rooms deep. Rear block was originally one or 2 rooms each floor. Layout altered C19 and C20. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, rear block with attics. Late C19 two-window front. Partly-modernised timber shop front with recessed central doorway, now open under plain overlight to central passage back to C20 doorway. Fascia with large ornamental end brackets and moulded cornice with cast-iron crest which is carried round base of first-floor oriel window, canted with moulded timber cornice and containing large front horned 4-pane sash window; 2 smaller sashes on second floor. Plain eaves to hipped roof. Rear block faces north with irregular fenestration; some undistinguished C20 casements but also several C19 twelve-pane sashes (including a row of 3 at first-floor level), pair of 3/6-pane sashes at second-floor level and gable has an 8-pane sash. The rear of the front-block side wall also contains 12-pane sashes to the upper floors. INTERIOR: Most of the ground floor shows the results of C19 and C20 modernisations, but the rear of the right shop is under the rear block and here joists of large scantling and C17 appearance are exposed. HISTORY: Foss Street marks the line of a medieval dam, which included a tidal mill. The mill pool was filled in and developed around 1820-1830, although houses were built along the Foss from the C17 onwards.
Listing NGR: SX8771451462
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387263
- 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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