28, HIGH STREET

28, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1264634
Date first listed:
07-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:
28, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
28, HIGH STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1264634
Date first listed:
07-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:
28, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
28, 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
28, 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 80176 60433

Details

1. 5180 HIGH STREET (South Side) No 28 SX 8060 SW 1/52 7.1.52.

II* GV

2. Early C18, possibly built as a pair with No 26, by John Awatt. Formerly housed the Old Theatre, now used as a store. 3 storeys and attic. 3 windows. Welsh slate roof with gabled front. Moulded bargeboard. Plastered front with rusticated 1st floor. Coved cornice enriched with swags. Architraved 2nd floor sash windows with glazing bars and flanked by scroll decoration. Modern 1st floor casement windows with rusks on keys. Modern shopfront. Interior with dogleg, late C18 staircase with turned balusters, newels, and carved brackets. Mid C19 theatre entrance at rear flanked by pilasters carrying broken pediment with centre-piece. foyer screen to theatre with pilasters flanking 3 round-arched openings with archivolts, keys and dentil cornice over. Theatre altered. (M. Laithwaite).

Listing NGR: SX8017660433

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
427318
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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