Kings House
1, 1A AND 2, BAY VIEW STEPS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298294
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Kings House
- Statutory Address:
- 1, 1A AND 2, BAY VIEW STEPS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298294
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Kings House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, 1A AND 2, BAY VIEW STEPS
- Statutory Address 2:
- KINGS HOUSE, 69, KING 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:
- 1, 1A AND 2, BAY VIEW STEPS
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS HOUSE, 69, KING STREET
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 92731 56265
Details
BRIXHAM
SX9256SE KING STREET, Lower Brixham 1946-1/11/171 (South East side) 10/01/75 No.69 Kings House
GV II
Includes: Nos.1, 1A AND 2 BAY VIEW STEPS Lower Brixham. House, now divided into 4 flats. Possibly late C18/early C19, remodelled early/mid C19. Solid rendered walls; right side wall partly slate-hung in upper storeys. Slated roof. 2 brick chimneys on gable-end to right, 1 to left. 3 storeys with basement and garret. 3 windows wide. Ground storey has 6-panelled centre door, the 2 bottom panels flush; lion-head knocker; 3-paned fanlight. Flanking Doric columns with fluted capitals having triglyphed sections of frieze above; cornice or pediment missing. At either side is a bow window with 8-paned sashes. Across the tops of both bows and doorway is a later pent-roof. At left-hand end is a cellar-entrance with double plank doors. Second-storey windows have moulded architraves, friezes and cornices; 2-paned sashes, except that the glazing-bar is missing in the lower left-hand and upper right-hand sashes. In third storey the left-hand window has a moulded architrave and 2-paned sashes; the other 2 windows have been amalgamated into a single metal-framed C20 window. Flanking the 2 upper storeys are panelled pilasters standing on small mouldings at first-floor level. Deep flat eaves-cornice, but with a row of small brackets beneath it, as if for an earlier cornice. Right side wall has small doorway with flanking pilasters and cornice, the pilasters incised with key-pattern.
Listing NGR: SX9273156265
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383650
- 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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