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Listed building outline: Nos 14-32 Including Front Garden Walls And Railings 383531

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Nos 14-32 Including Front Garden Walls And Railings 383531

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.497833 50.400799,-3.498092 50.400754,-3.498082...
• entry-date: 1986-11-07
• listed-building: 1298256
• name: Nos 14-32 Including Front Garden Walls And Railings
• notes: 5 linked pairs of semi-detached cottages, originally built for coastguards. c1889. Squared rough-faced Devonian limestone rubble. Slated roofs. Stone chimney on each end wall; masonry as in house walls, but with entablatures of dressed limestone. Cottages seem to be 1 room wide and 2 rooms deep with a shared entrance-porch in the centre of each pair. Low, single-storeyed outbuildings with flat roofs link each pair to the next, and to the Coastguard Station at No.12 (qv). No.26 has been extended to the left in late C20. Houses are 2-storeyed. Each pair 4 windows wide, except that Nos 26 & 28 are now 6 windows wide. Gabled entrance-porches with chamfered copings and kneelers; quatrefoil panel in gable with a small triple-arched panel in the apex. Plank doors; with wreath-knockers at Nos 18, 26, 28 & 30. Flat-headed windows with dressed stone surrounds. 6-paned sashes at Nos 14 & 16, 22 (upper sashes only), 26 (ground storey only), and 28-32. Other houses have plain sashes, except that No.24 has aluminium-framed casement and No.26 wood-framed ones in upper storey. Porches have small windows with 4-paned wood casements, except at Nos 20 & 24. Subsidiary features: in front of the whole range of houses is a low stone wall having a chamfered limestone coping and an iron railing with simple pointed uprights. Nos 14-20 & 24 have gates to match. Listing NGR: SX9359856718
• reference: 383531
• start-date: 1986-11-07