6, Fore Street

BRIXHAM

SX9256SW FORE STREET, Lower Brixham 1946-1/10/146 (North West side) No.6

GV II

Large house, now shops. Early C19; possibly a remodelling of an earlier house. Solid rendered front. Top of left side wall of stone rubble with red-brick gable. Slated roof; rear slope appears to be more steeply pitched than front. Double-fronted and double-depth with staircase at rear centre. 3 storeys with garret. 3 widely-spaced windows wide. Ground storey has wide centre doorway with bead-moulded surround; flanking pilaster strips, moulded cornice on consoles. Upper-storey windows have sashes with horns; sashes in third storey 2-paned. Second-storey windows have moulded cornices on consoles. Raised quoins in all 3 storeys. Deep flat eaves-cornice, with mouldings at rear of 1 soffit. Small hipped dormer in centre of roof; 2-light wood casement. Matching dormer with pent-roof on rear roof slope. INTERIOR not inspected, but seems to have original staircase with boarded-in balustrade. The house occupies an important position near the junction with Bolton Street and New Road.

Listing NGR: SX9237056034