CHAIN HOUSE

CHAIN HOUSE, 8, BROWNSTON STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1325095
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1990
List Entry Name:: CHAIN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CHAIN HOUSE, 8, BROWNSTON STREET

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Date:: 2001-11-04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1325095
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1990
List Entry Name:: CHAIN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CHAIN HOUSE, 8, BROWNSTON STREET

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.

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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:: CHAIN HOUSE, 8, BROWNSTON STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: Modbury
National Grid Reference:: SX 65868 51685

Details

MODBURY BROWNSTON STREET SX 6451-6551 (west side) 7/80 No 8 (Chain House)

GV II*

House in row. Early C18 street frontage, incorporating earlier cottages behind. Coursed rubble, slate roof. A good street frontage block with deep and narrow back wing possibly on site of earlier cottages. To street is 2-storeys and attic with 4 windows, all good 12-pane sashes to voussoirs with projecting painted keystone, bull-nose Stone cills; in bay 2 a 6-panel fielded door with glazing-bar overlight, in moulded architrave and with flat cantilevered canopy to moulded edge. Four pedimented dormers with 9-pane sashes. Plinth, flat mid string course, modillion wood cornice to secret gutter; decorative hopper-heads to lead down-pipes; brick stacks to each gable. Long back wing in 2 storeys has slate-hung upper level with 4:12:4:12:24-pane, sashes above a 6-panel door, arched casement with Y-tracery, large 4-light sash, further door and two sashes; the end gable, left with rounded corner, has a scatter of pigeon openings. Back of wing has central very broad eaves stack gabled back to roof slope. Interior: ground floor left rood has C18 fireplace surround with egg and dart embellish- ment, rococo scrolls and overmantel with 3 masks. Right-hand room with fielded panelling, modillion cornice and fireplace with unusual Ionic 'consoles', dentilled mantel shelf, good door. Main stair is dog-leg through 2 floors, 3 hoisted balusters per tread. First floor back roam has recess with thistle and lion head brackets; similar recess in front room, left, also bolection mould fire surround. Front, right, good C18 fire surround with eared architrave. Back wing has C17 A-frame roof structure, some very wide floor boards, many contemporary (C18) doors. Here also a second staircase enclosed in panelling, and an C18 cupboard with a pair of small-paned doors; one room with moulded overmantel with keystone. This was clearly an important clothier's house; the name is said to derive from chains along the front of the house, within living memory, and and thought to mark the place where tolls were taken on market days. (Modbury: Our Inheritance, Modbury Local History Society, n.d).

Listing NGR: SX6586851685

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Legacy System number:: 99672
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.