6, Market Street

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 MARKET STREET 673-1/8/173 (East side) 23/10/72 No.6 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET STREET (East side) Nos.6 AND 7)

GV II

House. c1830. Mixed construction; mostly plastered stone rubble but slate-hung to timber-framed upper floors of front; end stacks with rendered brick chimneyshafts and old pots; slate roof. PLAN: Built as the southern half of a pair with No.7 (qv); one room deep, 2 rooms wide with central stair. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; symmetrical 2-window front. Plastered ground-floor level, slate-hung above. Ground floor has 8/12-pane sashes either side of central doorway which is recessed up 2 steps and contains a 6-panel door under a plain triangular-headed fanlight and attractive open-pediment hood supported on carved putti. 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 16-pane sashes. Deep eaves with plain plastered soffit. Roof is gable-ended and contains a gabled dormer with a 4-pane sash window and shaped bargeboards. Rear elevation is plastered and includes 3 round-headed fixed-pane windows with glazing bars and other horned 12-pane sashes. INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to be of interest. HISTORY: The area was developed in the 1820s and the 1830s on the site of a large infilled mill pool and contains a good group of early C19 buildings around the Market Square.

Listing NGR: SX8768651439