1, 2, 2A AND 2B, BANK STREET, 5 AND 5A, SOMERSET PLACE
1, 2, 2A AND 2B, BANK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269061
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 1, 2, 2A AND 2B, BANK STREET, 5 AND 5A, SOMERSET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 1, 2, 2A AND 2B, BANK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269061
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 1, 2, 2A AND 2B, BANK STREET, 5 AND 5A, SOMERSET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, 2, 2A AND 2B, BANK STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 5 AND 5A, SOMERSET PLACE
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:
- 1, 2, 2A AND 2B, BANK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 5 AND 5A, SOMERSET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Teignmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 94024 72893
Details
TEIGNMOUTH
25-1/7/196 SOMERSET PLACE 29-JUL-83 (East side) 5 AND 5A BANK STREET (South side) 1, 2, 2A AND 2B (Formerly listed as: BANK STREET 2, 2A AND 2B) (Formerly listed as: SOMERSET PLACE 5 AND 5A)
II Three houses with shops on a corner site with offices above. Mid-C19.
MATERIALS: Painted stucco with painted freestone dressings, slate roof hipped to the corner with stacks to party walls.
PLAN: Double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attics. Nine bays: five bays to the left on Bank Street; three bays to the right on Somerset Place; one bay to the corner. The facade is articulated by pilasters with moulded caps supporting an entablature and parapet. Various C20 dormers to attic. The second floor has three/six sash windows with moulded architraves and a continuous sill band. The first floor windows are six/nine sash windows under moulded cornices on consoles, those to the corner bay in curved frames. Windows over the party wall in Bank Street and the inside left second floor window are blind. C20 shop fronts to the ground floor. INTERIOR: Not inspected. SOURCES: N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Devon (2004), 800
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: Nos. 1, 2, 2a and 2b Bank Street and 5 and 5a Somerset Place is listed at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * A good example of a mid-C19 terrace on a corner plot * The intactness of the facades which retain their sash windows, moulded architraves, cill bands and pilasters
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461179
- 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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