1, Foss Street

This is a late 18th-century shop with a house above, located on Foss Street in Dartmouth. A date of 1781 is displayed on the front, although the building has undergone alterations and modernisations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed from stone rubble and has a plastered, timber-framed front. It has a slate roof, but no visible chimney shafts.

The building is three storeys high and has a two-window first-floor frontage. The front is plastered to resemble ashlar. The shop front is from the late 19th or early 20th century, with some later alterations, featuring three lights separated by slender glazing bars. A shop door is located in a canted recess, and a house door, with a six-panel design and a plain overlight, is recessed to the left. Horned four-pane sash windows are located on the upper floors; a pair to the first floor and a single window to the second floor. The roof has plain eaves and a parallel, gable-ended structure.

The interior has not been inspected. Foss Street follows the course of a medieval dyke, originally damming a tidal creek and including a tidal mill. The mill pool was filled in and developed around 1820-30, though houses were built along Foss Street from the 17th century onwards.