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28, High Street

A Grade II* Listed Building in Totnes, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.4315 / 50°25'53"N

Longitude: -3.6884 / 3°41'18"W

OS Eastings: 280176

OS Northings: 60433

OS Grid: SX801604

Mapcode National: GBR QM.T63Q

Mapcode Global: FRA 375X.6W0

Plus Code: 9C2RC8J6+HJ

Entry Name: 28, High Street

Listing Date: 7 January 1952

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1264634

English Heritage Legacy ID: 427318

Also known as: Old Theatre
Conker Shoes

ID on this website: 101264634

Location: Totnes, South Hams, Devon, TQ9

County: Devon

District: South Hams

Civil Parish: Totnes

Built-Up Area: Totnes

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Totnes St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

Tagged with: Theatre Cinema Retail building

Description


1. 5180 HIGH STREET (South Side) No 28 SX 8060 SW 1/52 7.1.52.

II* GV

2. Early C18, possibly built as a pair with No 26, by John Awatt. Formerly housed the Old Theatre, now used as a store. 3 storeys and attic. 3 windows. Welsh slate roof with gabled front. Moulded bargeboard. Plastered front with rusticated 1st floor. Coved cornice enriched with swags. Architraved 2nd floor sash windows with glazing bars and flanked by scroll decoration. Modern 1st floor casement windows with rusks on keys. Modern shopfront. Interior with dogleg, late C18 staircase with turned balusters, newels, and carved brackets. Mid C19 theatre entrance at rear flanked by pilasters carrying broken pediment with centre-piece. foyer screen to theatre with pilasters flanking 3 round-arched openings with archivolts, keys and dentil cornice over. Theatre altered. (M. Laithwaite).

Listing NGR: SX8017660433

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