12, HIGHER STREET
12, HIGHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297071
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- 12, HIGHER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 12, HIGHER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297071
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- 12, HIGHER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, HIGHER 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:
- 12, HIGHER 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 87771 51243
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX874510 HIGHER STREET 673-1/8/151 (West side) 11/12/69 No.12
GV II
House over shop. 1904, according to date plaque on the adjoining No.3 Hornhill (qv), incorporating an older (probably medieval) sidewall. Mixed construction; stone rubble left (southern) side wall, former party wall; remainder slate-hung timber-framing; no stack; slate roof. PLAN: One-room plan house with ground-floor shop and right side entrance to house, entrance hall with stair in right rear corner. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with cellar. Ground floor is stucco, lightly blocked out as ashlar. Original early C20 timber shop front (relatively plain) with canted right corner containing contemporary bottom-panelled glazed double doors under plain overlight. Right return has shop window with glazing bars and, to rear, house doorway containing a glazed 2-panel door under plain overlight. Slate-hung front and right return, both containing single horned 4-pane sashes to each of the upper floors. Front gable with plain bargeboards and terracotta finial. Roof hipped to rear. INTERIOR: Plain original detail.
Listing NGR: SX8777151243
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387271
- 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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