Description

BRIXHAM

SX9255 DREW STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/7/103 (South East side) 10/01/75 Nos.100-106 (Even)

GV II

Pair of houses, or possibly even a single large house, now sub-divided into houses and shops. Early C18 with late C19 or early C20 shop fronts. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slated roof. Large rendered chimney in centre of rear wall. Smaller rendered chimney at left end of rear wall. Red-brick chimneys on right roof slope and rear wing. L-shaped, with long rear wing to right. 2 storeys with garret. 6 windows wide. Segmental-headed windows (2 in ground storey, 6 above); those at Nos 100 & 102 have 8-paned sashes; those at outer ends of Nos 104 & 106 have triple sashes with 6 panes in the centre and 2 in the side-lights, while that in the centre has 6-paned sashes with margin-panes. No.100 has a simple shop front with fascia above and recessed door to right; latter is half-glazed with 2 unusual ribbed panels below. A moulded strip, extending on to the soffit of the doorway, separates it from the entrance to No.102; this has a 6-panelled door with letterbox, the 2 bottom panels having the same ribbed pattern as No.100; narrow 3-paned fanlight above; matching panelled reveal to right and soffit above. Nos 104 & 106 have shop front incorporating house door to left. Latter is 6-panelled with wreath knocker. Shop front has pair of display windows canted in centre towards a recessed, three-quarter glazed door, the latter with moulded panel below and shaped glazed panel above. To left of house door a panelled pilaster having above it a gabled block on paired brackets, this forming the terminal of an entablature running across the display window. At each end of the front and in the centre a pilaster carrying a round-arched panel; the end pilasters have had their lower parts removed. Coved eaves-cornice. 2 late C20 flat-topped dormers at Nos 100 & 102. Two early C20 gabled dormers at Nos 104 & 106. Two smaller gabled dormers on roof-hip to right.

Listing NGR: SX9205855112

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