48 And 50, Higher Street

BRIXHAM

SX9256SW HIGHER STREET, Lower Brixham 1946-1/10/159 (North side) 10/01/75 Nos.48 AND 50

GV II

Mirrored pair of houses. Mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Slated roof, hipped to front, gabled to rear. Rendered chimney on each side wall. Probably 1 room wide and 2 rooms deep. 3 storeys. Each house has 1 window per storey, placed at outer ends of front. Adjacent round-arched doorways in centre. These have late C20 wood doors; original linked semicircular hoodmoulds. Late C20 small-paned wood windows at No.48, that in ground storey taking the form of an inset bow. No.50 has late C19 canted bay window in ground storey; sashes, the middle one with a single upright glazing-bar. Plain sash-window in second storey. Barred sash-window in third storey: 8 over 8 panes. Moulded cornice above whole of ground storey. Deep, flat eaves-cornice. Right side wall, facing 'Higher Steps', has barred box-framed sash-window in each of the 2 lower storeys: 6 over 6 panes in ground storey, 8 over 8 panes above. Ground-storey window has hinges for external shutters.

Listing NGR: SX9245956222