Description

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 BROWNS HILL
673-1/8/49 (South side)
No.17
Summerland

GV II

House. c1830, some later C19 and C20 modernisation. Plastered
stone rubble; one disused stack with no chimneyshaft, the
other with a brick chimneyshaft and pots; hipped slate roof.
PLAN: Double-depth, 2 rooms wide.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; 3-window front, possibly
originally symmetrical. Central doorway contains a part-glazed
6-panel door with flat-roofed timber porch supported on fluted
columns. Ground-floor window to right is a large late C19
horned sash without glazing bars. To left a canted bay rises
through ground- and first-floor levels and it contains
casement windows with glazing bars. Centre and right
first-floor French windows with margin glazing onto full-width
cast-iron balcony with ornamental balustrade of intersecting
circles with friezes of fret pattern including anthemia.
Second floor has 8-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars;
smaller sashes to 2 front dormer windows with hipped roofs.
INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as having C19 joinery and
stick-baluster stair.

Listing NGR: SX8759751463

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491994

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)