The Little Clock House
2, VICTORIA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218164
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Little Clock House
- Statutory Address:
- 2, VICTORIA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218164
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Little Clock House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, VICTORIA ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE LITTLE CLOCK HOUSE, VICTORIA ROAD
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:
- 2, VICTORIA ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE LITTLE CLOCK HOUSE, VICTORIA ROAD
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 87719 51388
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX874510 VICTORIA ROAD 673-1/8/266 (North side) 23/10/72 No.2 and The Little Clock House
GV II
Shop with house above. Probably c1825, with some later C19 and C20 modernisation. Mixed construction; stone rubble with plastered timber-framed fronts; no visible chimneyshafts; slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window range. Plaster fronts lightly blocked out as ashlar. Victoria Road has a late C19 timber shop front of 2 bays flanked by reeded pilasters with simple caps and fascia with moulded cornice above jettied first-floor level and carried across to left over house doorway with C20 panelled door. Shop doorway in canted right corner with bottom-panelled glazed door. Horned 4-pane sash window above towards right end. Foss Street (right) return in similar style. Shop front continued 2 bays from corner doorway and fascia continued to property boundary. Original house doorway at right end has plain overlight and, though blocked by a display window, the lower panels of the door show below. Horned 4-pane sash windows above, central pair to the first floor and one each end to the second floor. First-floor left a C19 circular clockface recessed into the wall, made by WH Howe of Dartmouth. Plain eaves to hipped roof running up Foss Street. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: Victoria Road was built in 1825 to enable, for the first time, horse-drawn carriages to come in and out of town and was associated with the development of the reclaimed land of the old mill pond. This corner building forms an attractive group with the shops of Foss Street.
Listing NGR: SX8771651390
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387380
- 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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