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Listed building outline: Nos 1 And 2 Including Gate Piers And Garden Wall Facing Brixham Road 383576

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Nos 1 And 2 Including Gate Piers And Garden Wall Facing Brixham Road 383576

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.547169 50.391662,-3.547118 50.391725,-3.547195...
• entry-date: 1993-10-17
• listed-building: 1195182
• name: Nos 1 And 2 Including Gate Piers And Garden Wall Facing Brixham Road
• notes: Pair of cottages built as a single range. Probably C18/C19 remodelling of an earlier building. Solid rendered walls; quoins of Devonian limestone and red sandstone exposed in left side walls. Hipped slated roof. Red-brick chimney, the top designed as an entablature, on ridge above party-wall. Rendered chimney with 2 round pots on rear wall of No.1. Two storeys. 3 windows wide, the right-hand window belonging to No.2. Plank doors. Windows with 2-light wood casements, each light of 8 panes; Each house has a similar window in upper storey of its side wall. Similar window in rear wall. Subsidiary features: abutting the rear wall and extending along Brixham Road is a low wall of Devonian limestone rubble with pieces of red sandstone interspersed; coping of upright stones, approximately every third stone taller to provide a battlemented effect. Square gate piers of large sandstone blocks. The building occupies an important corner site, relating to groups of listed buildings in both Brixham and Churston Roads. It is shown as a single house on the Churston Ferrers tithe map of 1839. Listing NGR: SX9011055787
• reference: 383576
• start-date: 1993-10-17