No 60 Including Front Garden Walls

BRIXHAM

SX9154 MILTON STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/8/250 (South East side) 10/01/75 No.60 including front garden walls

GV II

House. Probably C17 or earlier, remodelled early C19. Solid roughcast walls. Slated roof. Large rendered chimney of pre-C19 appearance on ridge off centre to left. 2 storeys, 3 windows wide. The right-hand end seems to have been rebuilt or added later, leaving the rest to form a symmetrical 2-window house with centre doorway. 6-panelled door with old brass knocker and letterbox, the 2 bottom panels flush; plain narrow fanlight. Trellised wood porch with louvred sides and ogee roof; in centre a round arch decorated with a fringe of tiny pendants. WIndows have 6-paned sashes, including right-hand upper storey window. To right of ground storey is a plank door with a 2-light wood casement window immediately to its left, this having 8 panes per light. Subsidiary features: the front garden stands well above street-level and has a stone rubble retaining wall at the front, contiguous with that of No.58 (qv). The wall has a coping of flat stone slabs and rises to form gate piers opposite the 2 doors: Lower gateway opposite the main house door, wide ones (with large hinges) at right-hand end. The steps leading up to the main door are flanked by rendered stone rubble walls with stone slab copings. At right-hand end the side wall has a chamfered coping ramped up against the wall of the house.

Listing NGR: SX9151954695