79-87, WINNER STREET

This is a row of shops with living accommodation above, built in two phases around the 1830s in Paignton. Numbers 79-81 and 83-87 comprise the building. The front is rendered, with some areas showing where the rendering has been removed. Numbers 83-87 have a Turnerised slate roof, with a hip at the right end, while the right gable end of number 87 is slate-hung. There is a left-end stack with a brick shaft, and other stacks have rendered shafts.

The ground floor of numbers 79-81 retains parts of a rare shopfront from the 1830s. It includes three reeded Ionic columns supporting an entablature with a projecting fascia and a moulded cornice. A doorway leads to a passage on the left, and the central shop doorway is flanked by 20th-century two-pane plate glass shop windows that angle inwards. The first and second floors have 20th-century replacement casement windows. Numbers 83-87 have 20th-century shopfronts, with a recessed plank door and narrow overlight leading to a passage between numbers 83 and 85. They have three first-floor and two second-floor windows; the left-hand windows are small-pane casements, while the two right-hand bays have early 19th-century sixteen-pane sash windows. The ground floors have been modernised, but interesting features may survive in other parts of the building. The street, Winner Street, was the main medieval route in Paignton and was named after the bishops' vineyard.