Description

BRIXHAM

SX9255 BOLTON STREET, Lower Brixham
1946-1/7/130 (East side)
10/01/75 No.34
Drake House including front
area-railings and shoescraper

GV II

House. Early C19. Solid rendered walls. Hipped tiled roof.
Rendered chimney on right side wall. Double-fronted, probably
double-depth plan. 3 storeys with high basement. Symmetrical
3-window front. Segmental-headed centre doorway with plain
raised surround; 6-panelled door with Egyptian-head knocker,
the 2 bottom panels flush. Windows have box-framed sashes with
horns, each sash with a single horizontal glazing-bar. Middle
third-storey window is blind. Deep flat eaves-cornice.
Subsidiary features: in front of the house is a high raised
terrace, with original iron railing having spear-heads to the
uprights. At foot of steps leading up to the front door, set
into left side wall, is a patterned iron shoe scraper. On the
right-hand side, garage doors have been cut into the front of
the terrace.

Listing NGR: SX9240455855

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585790

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)