Nos 69 And 71 Milton Street And No 1 Summer Lane And Garden Wall To Right

SX9154 1946-1/8/252 10/01/75

BRIXHAM MILTON STREET, Higher Brixham (North West side) Nos.69 AND 71 and garden wall to right

GV II

Formerly known as: No.67 MILTON STREET Higher Brixham. Includes: No.1 SUMMER LANE Higher Brixham. House or houses, now extended and sub-divided to form 3 houses. C17 or earlier, with added rear wing. Solid roughcast walls; No.1 Summer Lane with slate-hung upper storey facing Milton Street. Right side wall of latter is of painted stone rubble. Slated roof. Large rendered chimney with tapered cap on rear wall of Milton Street range of No.1 Summer Lane. C20 rendered chimney on front roof slope of No.69. Small rendered chimney on left end wall of No.71. Long range to Milton Street, its original layout disguised by early, C18 refacing of No.1 Summer Lane. Long rear wing to right. 2 storeys, the left-hand end of No.71 heightened to 3 storeys in C19. Irregular 6-window front to Milton Street. Plank doors to Nos 69 & 71; former late C20; latter C19, divided into upper and lower halves and with a combined iron knocker and letterbox. No.71 has a slated, pent-roofed door hood. Milton Street front of No.1 Summer Lane has wood casements in ground storey with 2 panes per light: 2 lights in centre window, 3 lights in those at either end. Upper storey has 2 flush-framed sash windows with 8 panes per sash. Slatehanging sweeps outwards at the bottom over an early C18 moulded cornice. Windows at No.69, including the left-hand upper-storey window at No.71, have 2-light wood casements with 6 panes per light. Left side of No.71 has late C20 small-paned wood window. INTERIOR: not inspected but 1975 list description says 'Roof structures retain remains of original timbers but largely reconstructed C19/C19. Some ceiling beams and partition studs'. Subsidiary features: to right of Milton Street range of No.1 Summer Lane and extending round the Summer Lane frontage of its side, is a tall stone rubble garden wall with considerable townscape value. Fronting Milton Street it has a blocked doorway with a segmental arch of tall well-cut voussoirs. On the Summer Lane side is the street-name SUMMER LANE in blue and white glazed tiles.

Listing NGR: SX9159954800