Burton Villa

Burton Villa is a large detached house located on Burton Street in Higher Brixham, dating from the early 19th century. The house features solid rendered walls and a hipped slated roof, with a rendered chimney on the right side wall. It has a double-fronted and likely double-depth plan, standing two storeys tall with a later garret. The front facade has three windows designed in a Picturesque Gothic style, with a central doorway that includes half-glazed, leaded double-doors. The windows are characterized by incurving, pointed arches and patterned glazing with margin-panes. A deep, flat eaves-cornice runs along the top, and there is a large late 20th-century dormer.

Across the front of the ground storey, there is a long verandah topped with an ogee-leaded roof, supported by slender iron columns, each end featuring arches of patterned ironwork. The right side and rear walls, which are visible from Burton Villa Close, display plain early 19th-century detailing. The side wall includes a short round-arched upper-storey window with small-paned glazing and a ground-storey window with six over six panes. The rear wall contains four sash windows, all six-paned, with one on the ground storey and three above. Additionally, there are three hipped dormers with slate-hung sides and barred sashes, featuring four over eight panes. This villa type is associated with the Gillard family in Brixham, as Mr. Gillard built the villas for himself and his daughters, including Eveleigh House, Doctors Road, and Norton House and Aylmer on Milton Street.