Description

BRIXHAM

SX9155 PARK AVENUE, Higher Brixham 1946-1/6/268 (South West side) No.1 Sunpark

GV II

House. 1930s. Modern Movement house to the designs of Melville H. Aubin. Mainly brick, painted white with blue (replacing original green) painting of windows and rainwater goods with flat sun roof with railings; stack with pair of tall rendered shafts linked by horizontal bar. Plan: entrance into hall, stair in turret to left. Living room and dining room to right in lower-roofed block, bowed to front and rear, kitchen to left, behind stair, with shallow projecting stack. Stair turret rises to give access to small room on top of sun roof. Exterior: very complete. 2 storeys with taller stair turret and sun room on roof. Asymmetrical 3-window front of 3 staggered blocks. Iron windows with glazing bars; ribbon wrap-around windows to the bowed front to the right. Tall stair turret to left with 3 windows. Lower-roofed porch block in centre, slightly set back, with projecting porch canopy supported on post at right and forming balcony to first-floor room above. Original oak front door. Bow-ended block to right, broken forward. The right return has paired slit windows to each floor. Sun room on roof has large windows on 3 sides. INTERIOR: very unaltered except for light switches and most light fittings and wall decoration. Plywood joinery with original door furniture; original tiled chimneypieces; parquet floors. Original kitchen including sink, fitted shelving and cupboards; original bathroom with green wall tiles and patterned floor. This is an almost perfectly preserved example of a Modern Movement house.

Listing NGR: SX9178155271

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6