Nos 69 and 71 Milton Street and No 1 Summer Lane and Garden Wall to Right
1, SUMMER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292151
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 69 and 71 Milton Street and No 1 Summer Lane and Garden Wall to Right
- Statutory Address:
- 1, SUMMER LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-06-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/04801/09
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292151
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 69 and 71 Milton Street and No 1 Summer Lane and Garden Wall to Right
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, SUMMER LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- NOS 69 AND 71 AND GARDEN WALL TO RIGHT, MILTON 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:
- 1, SUMMER LANE
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 69 AND 71 AND GARDEN WALL TO RIGHT, MILTON 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:
- SX9159954800
Details
SX9154
1946-1/8/252
10/01/75
BRIXHAM
MILTON STREET, Higher Brixham
(North West side)
Nos.69 AND 71 and garden wall to right
GV
II
Formerly known as: No.67 MILTON STREET Higher Brixham.
Includes: No.1 SUMMER LANE Higher Brixham.
House or houses, now extended and sub-divided to form 3
houses. C17 or earlier, with added rear wing. Solid roughcast
walls; No.1 Summer Lane with slate-hung upper storey facing
Milton Street. Right side wall of latter is of painted stone
rubble. Slated roof. Large rendered chimney with tapered cap
on rear wall of Milton Street range of No.1 Summer Lane. C20
rendered chimney on front roof slope of No.69. Small rendered
chimney on left end wall of No.71.
Long range to Milton Street, its original layout disguised by
early, C18 refacing of No.1 Summer Lane. Long rear wing to
right. 2 storeys, the left-hand end of No.71 heightened to 3
storeys in C19. Irregular 6-window front to Milton Street.
Plank doors to Nos 69 & 71; former late C20; latter C19,
divided into upper and lower halves and with a combined iron
knocker and letterbox. No.71 has a slated, pent-roofed door
hood. Milton Street front of No.1 Summer Lane has wood
casements in ground storey with 2 panes per light: 2 lights in
centre window, 3 lights in those at either end. Upper storey
has 2 flush-framed sash windows with 8 panes per sash.
Slatehanging sweeps outwards at the bottom over an early C18
moulded cornice. Windows at No.69, including the left-hand
upper-storey window at No.71, have 2-light wood casements with
6 panes per light. Left side of No.71 has late C20 small-paned
wood window.
INTERIOR: not inspected but 1975 list description says 'Roof
structures retain remains of original timbers but largely
reconstructed C19/C19. Some ceiling beams and partition
studs'.
Subsidiary features: to right of Milton Street range of No.1
Summer Lane and extending round the Summer Lane frontage of
its side, is a tall stone rubble garden wall with considerable
townscape value. Fronting Milton Street it has a blocked
doorway with a segmental arch of tall well-cut voussoirs. On
the Summer Lane side is the street-name SUMMER LANE in blue
and white glazed tiles.
Listing NGR: SX9159954800
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383679
- 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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