Coastguard Station
COASTGUARD STATION, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217809
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Coastguard Station
- Statutory Address:
- COASTGUARD STATION, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217809
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Coastguard Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- COASTGUARD STATION, KING 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:
- COASTGUARD STATION, KING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brixham
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 92740 56316
Details
BRIXHAM
SX9256SE KING STREET, Lower Brixham 1946-1/11/176 (North West side) 10/01/75 Coastguard Station (Formerly Listed as: BRIXHAM HARBOUR Coastguard Station)
GV II
Head coastguard station for Brixham. Early C19; restored, altered internally, and extended 1982-4. Stone rubble, partly rendered. Slated roof, hipped towards the harbour. Rendered chimneys with plain stepped caps. L-shaped, with 1982-4 addition in the angle of the L. South-west range formerly had boathouse in basement. 2 storeys with basement where ground falls away towards the harbour. South-west front 4 windows wide. Segmental-headed windows in ground storey, with doorway at right-hand end. Flat-headed windows in upper storey, alternating with canted bay windows that are coved on the underside. The other windows have flat eared architraves with a projecting block on each jamb. Boxed eaves-cornice. Gable-end facing harbour is similar. Wide segmental-arched doorway with plain architrave in basement. Bay window in storey above; 2 flat-headed windows in top storey. Rear range similar in style but without bay windows. Small-paned sashes throughout the building; all seem to have been renewed in 1982-4. INTERIOR almost entirely altered in 1982-4. One mid C19 round-arched iron fireplace with hob grate survives on upper floor.
Listing NGR: SX9274056316
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383656
- 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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