Description

BRIXHAM

SX9154 MILTON STREET, Higher Brixham
1946-1/8/244 (North West side)
18/10/49 No.61
Aylmer

GV II*

Detached house. Early C19. Solid rendered walls. Centre block
has hipped slate roof; wings have flat roofs. Rendered chimney
on each end wall. Centre entrance passage leading to bowed
stair-turret at rear. Front room at either side; behind
left-hand room a passage leading to kitchen in left wing.
Right wing has one room with external rear access only. Added
lean-to behind kitchen passage and against right wall of wing.
Picturesque Gothic style.
2 storeys; wings may originally have been single-storeyed.
Front 3-windows wide with blind wings. Openings have pointed,
incurving arches, those in ground storey with reeded imposts.
Wood-framed French windows in ground storey, each leaf of 4
panes with margin-panes. Front door is similar, but late C20
near-replica. All 3 openings have transom-lights with
intersecting glazing bars; reeded transom at the base.
Upper-storey windows closely similar, but with 3-paned wood
casements with margin-panes. Panelled pilaster-strip at each
end of front. Deep flat eaves cornice with brackets and
soffit-panels.
Across front of ground storey a trellised wood porch with
swept roof; rebuilt 1988. Wings each have a semicircular niche
with round arch; inside, urns on pedestals. Flanking each wing
is a narrow projection rising part-way up the wall; in right
wing the left projection is considerably the taller,
suggesting perhaps that the wings were originally lower with
shaped tops. Rear wall has windows similar to those at the
front with most of the soffit-panels missing.
INTERIOR: Entrance passage has groined vault divided by reeded
arches. Moulded door frames with flowers in top corners;
6-panelled doors with raised mouldings on the panels.
Cantilevered wood staircase, the treads with moulded mosings
continued on to soffit; thin square balusters. Handrail
voluted at bottom. Moulded cornice and coved ceiling to stair
compartment. Panelled shutters to stair windows. First-floor
gallery rail bowed. Right-hand ground-storey room has moulded
coved cornice. Panelled shutters front and back. C19/C20 wood
chimneypiece with coloured patterned tiles and iron grate.
Left-hand ground-storey room has coved moulded cornice and
panelled shutters. Kitchen has original segmental-headed
dresser with moulded shelves, at either end of it a panelled
cupboard with raised moulding on the panels. Plain panelled
shutters. Upper floor has lobby with groined vault. Door
frames like those on ground storey; 4-panelled doors with
raised moulding on the panels. The 3 main rooms have moulded
cornices, that in middle room coved.
A particularly fine example of its type, the best of several
built in Brixham for the Gillard family, namely Eveleigh
House, Doctors Road, Burton Villa, Burton Street and Norton
House, Milton Street (qv).

Listing NGR: SX9162554857

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550042

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014