10, Foss Street

This is a shop with living accommodation above, located on Foss Street in Dartmouth. Dating from 1839 (as indicated by a datestone to the carriageway), there's a possibility of an earlier core structure, with later 19th and 20th century alterations. The building features mixed construction—stone rubble party walls alongside plastered timber-framed fronts. It has axial chimney stacks with rendered brick chimney shafts and old pots, topped with a slate roof.

The building's design is an L-shape, incorporating a carriageway that leads to a rear courtyard. The front façade is plastered and designed to resemble ashlar stonework. The ground floor displays a well-preserved late 19th-century shop front with timber columns and small Gothic brackets; the windows lack glazing bars. A central recessed doorway contains a bottom-panelled glazed door with a plain overlight. A panelled pilaster sits at the right end of the shop front, supporting a large shaped bracket to the fascia, with a similar feature on the Flavel Street return. The first floor has a large late 20th-century window, and the second floor has two windows without glazing bars. An additional bay on the right features a carriageway, incorporating a large early 20th-century timber pointed arch inscribed “Independent Chapel”, above which sits a horned sash window without glazing bars. A timber modillion eave runs along the hipped roof. The Flavel Street front features four bays in a similar style. Ground-floor windows have been converted to 20th-century display windows, and a round-headed doorway, originally positioned right of centre, is now blocked by another display window, although the original fanlight remains, with Y-tracery glazing bars and a large, timber doorcase featuring fielded-panel pilasters and spandrels beneath a moulded cornice. Many upper floor windows are now blind, although a single original 12-pane sash window remains, and to the rear a first-floor loading hatch with a two-flap door can be found.

Inside the shop, remnants of an ornamental plaster cornice are visible. A room on the first floor retains a complete cornice and an original marble fireplace with an iron grate. A stick-baluster staircase is also present. Further original details remain on the upper floors.

Historically, Foss Street represents the route of a medieval dyke, which originally included a tidal mill. The mill pond was filled in and developed between 1820 and 1830, though houses had been built along Foss Street since the 17th century.