Ye Olde Coffin House
YE OLDE COFFIN HOUSE, TEMPERANCE PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298287
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Coffin House
- Statutory Address:
- YE OLDE COFFIN HOUSE, TEMPERANCE PLACE
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- Date:
- 2001-06-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/04735/02
- Rights:
- © Mr Dennis Coote. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298287
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Coffin House
- Statutory Address 1:
- YE OLDE COFFIN HOUSE, TEMPERANCE PLACE
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:
- YE OLDE COFFIN HOUSE, TEMPERANCE PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brixham
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 92619 56154
Details
BRIXHAM
SX9256SE TEMPERANCE PLACE, Lower Brixham 1946-1/11/218 (West side) 10/01/75 Ye Olde Coffin House (Formerly Listed as: TEMPERANCE PLACE Coffin House)
GV II
House with shop. Probably early C19, remodelled early C20. Solid rendered walls, except for side wall to Temperance Place, which is of painted stone rubble. Slated roof, hipped towards King Street. Rendered chimneys on right side wall and rear wall, the latter now with patches of red brick showing. Double-depth plan. Wedge-shaped (hence its name) with the narrow end fronting King Street. 4 storeys. 1 window wide to King Street. The latter front, which is the show-face of the building, has a late C20 bow window in ground storey. 2-storeyed early C20 canted bay window above with leaded lights and imitiation timber-framing. 2-light wood casement window in fourth storey. Right side wall has C20 wood casements; 3-paned fixed sash in fourth storey. Left side wall has late C20 door and bow windows; also 3 small older windows, 1 blocked, the other 2 with plain wood casements. Rear wall has a single 4-paned wood casement. Front and sides of building have a boxed gutter on shaped brackets, resembling an eaves-cornice. A late C19 or very early C20 photograph of the building is displayed in the shop window. It is titled YE OLDE COFFIN HOUSE and has W.CROCKER SHAVING SALOON written on a shop window with canted sides. Upper storeys have box-framed sashes with glazing bars. The building is important for its position at the junction of Temperance Place and King Street, both of which contain considerable numbers of listed buildings.
Listing NGR: SX9261956154
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383732
- 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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