Burton Villa

BRIXHAM

SX9255 BURTON STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/7/78 (North West side) 10/01/75 Burton Villa

II

Large detached house. Early C19. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slated roof. Rendered chimney on right side wall. Double-fronted and probably double-depth plan. 2 storeys with later garret. 3-window front in Picturesque Gothic style. Centre doorway with half-glazed, leaded double-doors. Windows with incurving, pointed arches. Patterned glazing with margin-panes. Deep, flat eaves-cornice. Large late C20 dormer. Across front of ground storey a long verandah with ogee-leaded roof; slender iron columns, each end with arches of patterned ironwork. Right side and rear walls (visible from Burton Villa Close) have plain early C19 detail. Side-wall has a short round-arched upper-storey window with small-paned glazing; ground-storey window with 6 over 6 panes. Rear wall has 4 sash-windows, all 6-paned: 1 in ground storey, 3 above. Also 3 hipped dormers with slate-hung sides and barred sashes: 4 over 8 panes. Of a type associated with the Gillard family in Brixham; Mr Gillard built the villas for himself and daughters viz: Eveleigh House, Doctors Road, and Norton House and Aylmer, Milton Street (qv).

Listing NGR: SX9216455531