4, SOUTH EMBANKMENT
4, SOUTH EMBANKMENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297054
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 4, SOUTH EMBANKMENT
- Statutory Address:
- 4, SOUTH EMBANKMENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297054
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 4, SOUTH EMBANKMENT
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4, SOUTH EMBANKMENT
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:
- 4, SOUTH EMBANKMENT
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 87858 51303
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX874510 SOUTH EMBANKMENT 673-1/8/226 (West side) No.4
GV II
Shop with house above. c1890 probably by EH Back. Mixed construction; solid side and back walls and timber-framed show front over ground-floor level of painted red brick with Bathstone ashlar dressings; right lateral stack with rendered red brick chimneyshaft; gabled slate roof with pierced crested ridge tiles. PLAN: Double-depth, one room wide with entrance lobby and stairs to left. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys; 2-window second-floor range. Ornamental show front in a distinctive Elizabethan style. Timber-framed with jettied floors, projecting bays, balustraded balconies. Stone doorway to ground-floor left has a moulded surround, C20 glazed door and overlight. Central stone 3-light mullion-and-transom window and, to right, a smaller segmental arch-headed and transomed window. First floor has large central segmental arch-headed opening, second floor has 2 French windows and 2 casements to the third floor. All windows now contain late C20 aluminium frames. First- and second-floor full-width balconies. Framing creates narrow panels which were probably originally slate-hung like the other contemporary houses on the street. Top-storey framing has braces and other ornament, including a brattished tie beam (similar decoration to the gable bargeboards). INTERIOR: Not inspected. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SX8786051306
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387340
- 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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