Description

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 FOSS STREET
673-1/8/133 (West side)
23/10/72 No.3
(Formerly Listed as:
FOSS STREET
(West side)
Nos.1 AND 3)

GV II

Shop with house above. Probably C18, with some C19 and C20
modernisation. Mixed construction; stone rubble with plastered
timber-framed front; no visible chimneyshafts; slate roof.
PLAN: One room wide and 2 rooms deep with passage to left.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic; 2-window first-floor range.
Plaster front lightly blocked out as ashlar. C20 shop front,
3-light window with shop door to right. House doorway recessed
to left also contains C20 door. Horned 4-pane sashes above.
Moulded timber eaves includes large modillion frieze. Parallel
gable-ended roof includes front gabled dormer.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
HISTORY: Foss Street follows the line of a medieval dyke which
dammed a tidal creek and included a tidal mill. The mill pool
was filled in and developed around 1820-30, although houses
were built along the Foss from the C17 onwards.

Listing NGR: SX8771251399

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584719

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6