Description

SX9154
1946-1/8/252
10/01/75

BRIXHAM
MILTON STREET, Higher Brixham
(North West side)
Nos.69 AND 71 and garden wall to right

GV
II

Formerly known as: No.67 MILTON STREET Higher Brixham.
Includes: No.1 SUMMER LANE Higher Brixham.
House or houses, now extended and sub-divided to form 3
houses. C17 or earlier, with added rear wing. Solid roughcast
walls; No.1 Summer Lane with slate-hung upper storey facing
Milton Street. Right side wall of latter is of painted stone
rubble. Slated roof. Large rendered chimney with tapered cap
on rear wall of Milton Street range of No.1 Summer Lane. C20
rendered chimney on front roof slope of No.69. Small rendered
chimney on left end wall of No.71.
Long range to Milton Street, its original layout disguised by
early, C18 refacing of No.1 Summer Lane. Long rear wing to
right. 2 storeys, the left-hand end of No.71 heightened to 3
storeys in C19. Irregular 6-window front to Milton Street.
Plank doors to Nos 69 & 71; former late C20; latter C19,
divided into upper and lower halves and with a combined iron
knocker and letterbox. No.71 has a slated, pent-roofed door
hood. Milton Street front of No.1 Summer Lane has wood
casements in ground storey with 2 panes per light: 2 lights in
centre window, 3 lights in those at either end. Upper storey
has 2 flush-framed sash windows with 8 panes per sash.
Slatehanging sweeps outwards at the bottom over an early C18
moulded cornice. Windows at No.69, including the left-hand
upper-storey window at No.71, have 2-light wood casements with
6 panes per light. Left side of No.71 has late C20 small-paned
wood window.
INTERIOR: not inspected but 1975 list description says 'Roof
structures retain remains of original timbers but largely
reconstructed C19/C19. Some ceiling beams and partition
studs'.
Subsidiary features: to right of Milton Street range of No.1
Summer Lane and extending round the Summer Lane frontage of
its side, is a tall stone rubble garden wall with considerable
townscape value. Fronting Milton Street it has a blocked
doorway with a segmental arch of tall well-cut voussoirs. On
the Summer Lane side is the street-name SUMMER LANE in blue
and white glazed tiles.

Listing NGR: SX9159954800

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580193

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Recommended Books

• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Berkshire (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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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)