9, Fisher Street

PAIGNTON

SX8860 FISHER STREET 1947-1/5/30 (North East side) 10/01/75 No.9 (Formerly Listed as: FISHER STREET (East side) No.9 and garage adjoining)

GV II

House. c1700 with C20 alterations. Rendered; thatched roof with plain ridge, half-hipped at left end, gabled at right end. Stack with rendered shaft. PLAN: On a prominent corner site between Fisher Street and Curledge Street. Single-depth main block, 2-rooms-wide, the left-hand room formerly heated from a front lateral stack, the right room heated from a right end stack. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front, lateral stack to left of centre with truncated shaft. C20 half-glazed front door alongside to right with C20 tiled porch hood. C20 bow window to right. Ground-floor window right and 3 first-floor windows glazed with C20 two-light casements with square leaded panes, probably in early embrasures. The left return, facing Curledge Street, has 2 ground and one first-floor window. INTERIOR: Largely modernised including a C20 stair. Features of c1700 include a 2-panel door on the first floor and a chamfered stopped fireplace lintel to the right-hand room stack. Photographs in the possession of the owner show a fine C18 chimney-piece which was formerly associated with the lateral stack, suggesting that the left-hand room was the parlour. Roof not inspected but said to consist of A-frame trusses.

Listing NGR: SX8858260361