Colbourne House
COLBOURNE HOUSE, 40, CLARENCE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293072
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Colbourne House
- Statutory Address:
- COLBOURNE HOUSE, 40, CLARENCE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293072
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Colbourne House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLBOURNE HOUSE, 40, CLARENCE 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:
- COLBOURNE HOUSE, 40, CLARENCE 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 87772 51589
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX8751 CLARENCE STREET 673-1/5/84 (North West side) 23/10/72 No.40 Colbourne House
GV II
House. Mid/late C18, renovated c1989. Exposed red brick, inconsistent bond tending towards Flemish bond; right end stack with rendered brick chimneyshaft; slate roof. PLAN: double-depth, one room wide, with left doorway to side passage widening to accommodate rear stairs. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window front, with plat bands at floor levels. 12-pane sashes to ground and first floors and small 6-pane sashes to the second floor, all with flat brick arches over. To left, stone steps up from the street to the round-headed front doorway which now has C20 cement flat surround with low pitched head, and contains a C20 part-glazed door under a plain fanlight. Passage rear doorway contains original round-headed door with fielded panels and integral fanlight with radial glazing bars. Plain eaves to parallel gable-ended roof containing a gabled dormer. INTERIOR: Open-string geometric staircase with stick balusters. Fielded-panel doors. Front room has lost its chimneypiece but is otherwise complete; moulded plaster dentil cornice, fielded-panel wainscotting to the dado, cupboards with fielded-panel doors, and fielded-panel shutters. Rest of interior not inspected but likely to be of interest.
Listing NGR: SX8777251589
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387210
- 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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