51, BUTTERWALK, 51, HIGH STREET
51, BUTTERWALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236209
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 51, BUTTERWALK, 51, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 51, BUTTERWALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236209
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Mar-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 51, BUTTERWALK, 51, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 51, BUTTERWALK
- Statutory Address 2:
- 51, BUTTERWALK
- Statutory Address 3:
- 51, HIGH 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:
- 51, BUTTERWALK
- Statutory Address:
- 51, BUTTERWALK
- Statutory Address:
- 51, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Totnes
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 80092 60465
Details
1. 5180 HIGH STREET (Butterwalk) No 51 SX 8060 SW 1/67D 7.1.52.
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2. Late C16 or early C17 merchant's house of "deux corps de batiments" type, much altered, with the former kitchen block and small court incorporated as part of the main house in the late C19 when the ground floor was converted for use as a shop. In the C19 the house was used as a brush factory. The range at the rear was a candle factory. Refronted mid C19. 3½ storeys. 1st floor with 5 bays. Welsh slate roof with ornamental cresting. ½ hipped gable to street. Timber-framed, slate-hung front with jettied attic. Moulded bargeboard with pineapple drops at eaves. 1st floor with pilasters between window bays carrying fascia. Ground floor loggia over pavement carried on granite Tuscan columns. 2nd floor and attic with architraved sash windows. Modern shopfront. Masonry party walls, that on west side fronting former open passage to No 53 and retaining blocked, 2 light window with moulded reveals amd mullion and wrought iron stay bars. 1st floor room with remains of original square- headed fireplace with moulded surround and relieving arch over; part of Elizabethan decorated plaster ceiling with ribwork.
Listing NGR: SX8009260465
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427051
- 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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