7, Market Street

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 MARKET STREET 673-1/8/174 (East side) 23/10/72 No.7 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET STREET (East side) Nos.6 AND 7)

GV II

House. c1830. Mixed construction; plastered stone rubble with roughcast timber-framing to the upper floors of front (probably formerly slate-hung); end stacks with rendered brick chimneyshafts and old pots; slate roof. PLAN: Built as the northern half of a pair with No.6 (qv); one room deep, 2 rooms wide with central stair. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; symmetrical 2-window front. Plastered ground-floor level, roughcast above. Ground floor has 16-pane sashes either side of central doorway which is recessed up 2 steps and contains a C20 door under an original overlight with a pattern of glazing bars. First-floor French windows with glazing bars and margin lights give onto balcony fenced with ornate cast-ironwork featuring Vitruvian scrolls, anthemiae and the like. Second floor has 12-pane sashes. Deep eaves with plain plastered soffit. Roof is gable-ended. Rear elevation is plastered and includes mostly C20 replacement windows although the long narrow stair window and a second-floor horned 4-pane sash may be C19. INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to be of interest. HISTORY: The area was developed in the 1820s and 1830s on the site of the infilled mill pool and contains a good group of C19 buildings around the Market Square.

Listing NGR: SX8768651446