Hillcrest 18, Modbury
Description: Hillcrest 18
Grade: II
Date Listed: 25 January 1990
English Heritage Building ID: 99680
OS Grid Reference: SX6588151761
OS Grid Coordinates: 265881, 51761
Latitude/Longitude: 50.3505, -3.8865
Location: Brownston Street, Modbury, Devon PL21 0RG
Locality: Modbury
Local Authority: South Hams
County: Devon
Country: England
Postcode: PL21 0RG
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Listing Text
MODBURY BROWNSTON STREET
SX 6451-6551
(west side)
7/88
No 18 (Hillcrest)
GV II
House at end of row. Early C19. Rendered and scribed as ashlar, slate hung
return wall to right, slate roof. Two storeys, 2 windows; 16-pane sashes at
ground floor and 12-pane above, all with alternating quoins and to splayed
voussoirs with vermiculated keystone. Centrally at eaves a small semicircular
'pediment' covering position of roof valley. Central door on 4 stone steps with
nosings, 4-panel C19 with fanlight in pilasters with capitals and moulded
architrave to arch; door set back in deep reveals. Also, far left, a plank door
in plat-band surround, to throughway. Return wall to right slate hung full
height with a 12-pane sash in a trompe l'oeil surround over panelled door to
deep overlight in heavy pilaster surround and deep stone canopy with moulded
edge, on brackets. Building has parallel hipped roofs with central valley at
right angles to street, containing valley stack. The property seems to have
been built to match No 19 (qv) which lies beyond a deep forecourt leading to
Hillside (qv).
Listing NGR: SX6588151761
Source: English Heritage
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