20 And 21, Southtown

DARTMOUTH

SX8750 SOUTHTOWN 673-1/6/239 (West side) 11/12/69 Nos.20 AND 21

GV II

Pair of small houses. c1820. Stone rubble with stucco front lightly blocked out as ashlar; left end and party wall stacks with rendered brick chimneyshafts; slate roof. PLAN: Double-depth. No.21 one room wide and No.20 two rooms wide with central entrance hall. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Overall 5-bay front with 3-window first-floor range. At ground-floor level, 3 windows alternate with 2 doorways. The doorways are similar and particularly fine. Recessed a little, they have timber doorcases with panelled pilasters to scroll consoles supporting open-pediment hoods and contain fielded 6-panel doors; No.21 has an overlight under the pediment whereas No.20 has glass in the top panels of the door. The hoods interrupt a richly-moulded timber cornice across the front at first-floor level. Left end bay has front windows for No.21; ground-floor horned 12-pane sash with original 16-pane sashes to the upper floors. Windows of No.20 arranged symmetrically around central doorway. Ground floor has paired horned 12-pane sashes each side, but all upper windows replaced in late C20 by aluminium windows emulating 4-pane sashes. Plain sprocketed eaves to roof hipped both ends. INTERIOR: Only parts of ground floor available for inspection - plain carpentry and joinery detail where exposed. According to the occupant of No.22 (qv) these houses were built for the coachman and servants of that house.

Listing NGR: SX8783950808