Hearthstone and Hearthstone East Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers
HEARTHSTONE AND HEARTHSTONE EAST INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, 40 AND 42, MILTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292195
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Hearthstone and Hearthstone East Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- HEARTHSTONE AND HEARTHSTONE EAST INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, 40 AND 42, MILTON STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-06-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/04730/04
- Rights:
- © Mr Dennis Coote. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292195
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Hearthstone and Hearthstone East Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEARTHSTONE AND HEARTHSTONE EAST INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, 40 AND 42, 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:
- HEARTHSTONE AND HEARTHSTONE EAST INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, 40 AND 42, 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:
- SX 91772 54868
Details
BRIXHAM
SX9154 MILTON STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/8/243 (South East side) 18/10/49 Nos.40 AND 42 Hearthstone and Hearthstone East inc front garden wall and gate-piers
GV II
Formerly known as: Hearthstone MILTON STREET Higher Brixham. Farmhouse, now divided into 2 private dwellings. C17 or earlier. Rendered stone rubble, possible with some cob. Thatched roof. Large stone rubble chimneys on front wall and rear wing of Hearthstone; 2 more on ridge and left end wall of Hearthstone East. Position of front chimney and adjacent door suggests this is a 3-room-and-cross-passage house with large addition at lower (left) end. Rear wing to right. 2 storeys. 5 windows wide. Both houses have plank doors, probably C20. Two- and 3-light wood casement windows, some with old hinges; diamond-shaped leaded panes. Subsidiary features: in front of the houses a tall stone rubble wall, with square gate piers at Hearthstone East. Entrance to Hearthstone is under a round stone rubble arch, probably C20. 1975 list describes this as 'completely though sympathetically restored in 1930s'.
Listing NGR: SX9177254868
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383673
- 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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