YE OLDE COFFIN HOUSE

YE OLDE COFFIN HOUSE, TEMPERANCE PLACE

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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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Official list entry

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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)

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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

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Legacy System number:: 383732
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.