Pound Cottage (No 24) And Pound House (No 26), With Front Garden Wall And Gate

BRIXHAM

SX9154 MILTON STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/8/238 (South East side) 10/01/75 Nos.24 AND 26 Pound Cottage (No.24) and Pound House (No.26), with front garden wall and gate (Formerly Listed as: MILTON STREET, Higher Brixham (South East side) Nos.24 AND 26 Pound Cottage (No.24))

GV II

Farmhouse, now 2 cottages. Late medieval, remodelled mid C19. Solid roughcast walls. Tiled roof. Rendered chimney with tapered cap, heightened in red brick, on left end wall. Capped red brick chimney on right end wall. 2 storeys. 4 windows wide. 6-panelled doors with knockers, the top panels now glazed; bottom panels flush; No.26 with late C20 wood porch. 3 windows in ground storey, all with C19 wood casements, 4 lights to left and centre, 3 lights to right; 3 panes per light. Upper-storey windows similar, but all of 3 lights with 2 panes per light. INTERIOR: not inspected, but 1975 list description says No.24 retains through-passage, some ceiling beams but much boxed in. No.26 shows evidence of open hall and some studded partitions. Later staircases. Remains of collar trusses but roof largely renewed and extended in C19. Deeds said to go back to 1746. Subsidiary features: stone rubble front garden wall with rendered chamfered coping. Square stone rubble gate piers with rendered pyramidal caps.

Listing NGR: SX9188454997