Corner House

Corner House is an early 19th-century building in Lower Brixham, originally the stable and coach house block for a now-demolished house called Parkham Wood. It is now used as a restaurant and club. The building has solid rendered walls with some painted stone rubble and a hipped slated roof, with a rendered chimney at the rear. It comprises a long, rectangular block, one room deep, fronting New Road, and a rear wing extending along Parkham Road.

The main block is hipped to the front, with slightly lower wings hipped at each end. The windows of the main block are from the mid to late 20th century, set in shallow, segmental-headed recesses with flanking pilasters. A ground-storey window appears to occupy part of what was a coach entrance on the left-hand side, and an upper-storey window is centrally placed. The wings each have two shallow, square-headed recesses; the narrower one adjoins the main block. Ground-storey openings have round-headed panels, with a late 20th-century glazed wood door in the right-hand one, and the upper storeys contain blank panels with cranked heads. Wider recesses have windows to the right and are blind to the left. A deep, bracketed eaves-cornice runs around the left side wall of the main building. The left side wall has a large, shallow, flat-headed recess with a late 20th-century door and window. The rear wing is simpler, with a late 20th-century door and window in the ground storey. The upper storey has two older five-light wood-framed casement windows.

The 1838 tithe map shows this building and Parkham Wood House (unnamed on the map or apportionment) as owned and occupied by Richard Walter Woolston, who was described as an attorney and notary in Pigot's Directory of 1844.