6, MARKET STREET
6, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292484
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 6, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 6, MARKET STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-07-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/05087/21
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292484
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 6, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, MARKET 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:
- 6, MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dartmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 87686 51439
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX874510 MARKET STREET 673-1/8/173 (East side) 23/10/72 No.6 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET STREET (East side) Nos.6 AND 7)
GV II
House. c1830. Mixed construction; mostly plastered stone rubble but slate-hung to timber-framed upper floors of front; end stacks with rendered brick chimneyshafts and old pots; slate roof. PLAN: Built as the southern half of a pair with No.7 (qv); one room deep, 2 rooms wide with central stair. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; symmetrical 2-window front. Plastered ground-floor level, slate-hung above. Ground floor has 8/12-pane sashes either side of central doorway which is recessed up 2 steps and contains a 6-panel door under a plain triangular-headed fanlight and attractive open-pediment hood supported on carved putti. First-floor French windows with glazing bars and margin lights give onto balcony fenced with ornate cast-ironwork featuring Vitruvian scrolls, anthemiae and the like. Second floor has 16-pane sashes. Deep eaves with plain plastered soffit. Roof is gable-ended and contains a gabled dormer with a 4-pane sash window and shaped bargeboards. Rear elevation is plastered and includes 3 round-headed fixed-pane windows with glazing bars and other horned 12-pane sashes. INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to be of interest. HISTORY: The area was developed in the 1820s and the 1830s on the site of a large infilled mill pool and contains a good group of early C19 buildings around the Market Square.
Listing NGR: SX8768651439
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387293
- 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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