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Friars Pardon, Black House, Black Friars House Including Walls, Gates And Piers 383667

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.521424 50.385652,-3.521528 50.385621,-3.521483...
• entry-date: 1949-10-17
• listed-building: 1217915
• name: Friars Pardon, Black House, Black Friars House Including Walls, Gates And Piers
• notes: Formerly known as: Black House, Penrose, Ingle Nook, Black Cottage MILTON STREET Higher Brixham. Large house. Probably C16/C17 or earlier, remodelled C17/C18 and again C18/C19. Minor additions to front in 1913. Solid rendered walls. Slated roof, the left cross-wing hipped to front and rear. 4 rendered chimneys with tapered caps; 1 on right end wall (heightened in brick), 1 on right rear wall of Black House, 1 on each of the rear wings. Appears to be a 3-room-and-cross-passage plan with cross wing projecting to left. Rear wing at each end of main range with a third alongside the left wing, behind the cross passage. 2 storeys, with garret in parts. 4-window main range; 2 windows in cross wing. Black House, which occupies the 3 left-hand windows of main range, has central doorway with large C18/C19 wooden porch having slender fluted columns and flat hood, the latter designed as an entablature with dentilled cornice. Rusticated door surround of 1913; half-glazed door with 2 moulded panels below and coloured leaded glass above. 3-light window above and to left of upper storey; other 2 upper-storey windows single-light; 6-paned sashes, those in side-lights 2-paned. Friars Pardon, in right-hand end of main range has matching 3-light window in each storey; 4-panelled door to left. Cross-wing (Black Friars House) has 2-light wood casements with 8 panes per light. Half-glazed door to right; 2 moulded panels below, coloured leaded glass above. The whole front has been decorated with cement quoins and window surrounds, apparently in 1913, since the dates 1457-1913 are moulded on a scroll above the middle upper-storey window of the Black House. Coved eaves-cornice over main range. C20 dormer with metal casements over Friars Pardon. Another, with wood casements, over Black Friars House. Left side wall has 3 windows with 6-paned sashes in upper storey; C20 dormer with wood casments. Small-paned sashes in rear wall; rainwater-head dated 1881. INTERIOR inspected only at the Black House. Detail almost entirely C18/C19 with some C17/C18, probably including the roof structure. Wooden open-well stair, the first flight balustraded on both sides, with the balustrades turning left and right at the top. Thin, square moulded balusters, shaped step-ends, both handrails voluted at the foot. In front of it a segmental arch springing from moulded pilasters. 6-panelled doors to rooms at either side on ground floor; these have panelled shutters and moulded cornices with enriched ceiling bands. First-floor half-landing and landing with moulded cornices; segmental arch over stair-head. Five 6-panelled doors. All 3 first-floor front rooms have moulded cornices. Right-hand room has C17/C18 wood chimneypiece with moulded surround and cornice. Left-hand room has C19 moulded wood chimneypiece with grey marble interior; iron basket-grate. Left rear-wing room has grey marble chimneypiece with hob grate; cupboards with plank and panelled doors, one with a broken triangular pediment; moulded cornice. Short wing adjoining it (now bathroom) has in rear wall a round-arched recess with fluted pilasters and moulded archivolt; moulded cornice. Roof-trusses of front range have arched collars pegged to their faces; through-purlins. Old iron pump in back yard. Subsidiary features: To left of house is a rendered wall with coping; at the left-hand end this curves inwards to a pair of large round gate piers with ball finials; iron gates, marked BLACK HOUSE TRADESMEN with arched braces and scrollwork. At right-hand end is a smaller iron gate with ornamented finials to the uprights; square piers with pyramidal caps and ball finials. The 1975 list description says this was 'originally the Town Manor House'. Horsley says the 'buildings stand on a piece of land that formerly belonged to the Duke of Suffolk, and was sold off by the Crown between 1590 and 1610.' (White W: Directory of Devonshire: 1850-: 427, 429; Horsley J E: A Short History of Brixham: Exeter: 1988-: 12). Listing NGR: SX9193555073
• reference: 383667
• start-date: 1949-10-17