22, FOSS STREET
22, FOSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297070
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 22, FOSS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 22, FOSS STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04463/28
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297070
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 22, FOSS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 22, FOSS 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:
- 22, FOSS 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 87705 51468
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX874510 FOSS STREET 673-1/8/144 (East side) 28/10/86 No.22 (Formerly Listed as: FOSS STREET Nos.22 AND 24)
GV II
Shop with house above. Probably mid C19. Mixed construction; limestone rubble side walls, plastered timber-framed front; end stacks with brick chimneyshafts and old pots; slate roof. PLAN: House 2 rooms wide and 2 rooms deep. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window front. Plastered front lightly blocked out as ashlar. House front doorway to left now contains C20 part-glazed door with overlight. Good C19 timber shop front with shop door recessed to left: said to have been a game shop with glazed tiles in 2 colours to the stallboard below window sill which has brass nosing; mullioned windows apparently contain C19 removeable windows with glazing bars under low slatted lunettes for ventilation, fascia with moulded cornice. Horned 4-pane sashes to the first floor and smaller horned 6-pane sashes to the second floor. Plain eaves and roof is hipped to right. INTERIOR: Ground-floor shop has no exposed C19 features. HISTORY: Foss Street marks the line of a medieval dam which included a tidal mill. The mill pool was filled in and developed around 1820-1830, although houses were built along the Foss from the C17 onwards.
Listing NGR: SX8770551468
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387264
- 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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