51-57, LONGBROOK STREET

51-57, LONGBROOK STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380840
Date first listed:
23-Jun-2000
List Entry Name:
51-57, LONGBROOK STREET
Statutory Address:
51-57, LONGBROOK STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380840
Date first listed:
23-Jun-2000
List Entry Name:
51-57, LONGBROOK STREET
Statutory Address 1:
51-57, LONGBROOK 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
51-57, LONGBROOK STREET

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

County:
Devon
District:
Exeter (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SX 92329 93137

Details

SX 9293 LONGBROOK STREET 871/12/10068 (West side) 23-JUN-00 51-57

II Terraced row of 4 houses. c.1845-1855. Red brick with slate roofs; Nos 53 and 57 have ornate red ridge tiles remaining. Axial chimney stacks with Nos 53 and 55 retaining some early pots. Cast iron rain water goods.
Plan: Deep rectangular plan, one room wide. Front entrances to the left with stair behind. Rooms heated by stacks to the right.
Exterior: Each house is 3 storeys and has a 2 window front. Deep boxed eaves with paired brackets. Continuous platband at 1st and at 2nd floor levels. Doorcases with projecting cornices on consoles at Nos 51 and 53. Nos 55 and 57 have gabled porches with panelled reveals and overlight. Front doors have 6 fielded panels. To right of door is 12-pane hornless sash window. The 1st floor has two 6/9 pane hornless sash windows. The 2nd floor has two 3/6 pane hornless sash windows. No 51 has a C20 front door and C20 replacement windows above the ground floor.
INTERIOR: No 53 partially inspected. Some original plaster cornices and internal doors remain. Owner reports that original black marble chimney pieces remain, though now painted over.
A complete mid C19 terrace in the Georgian tradition.


Listing NGR: SX9232993137

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
481164
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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