11, Foss Street

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 FOSS STREET 673-1/8/138 (West side) 23/10/72 No.11 (Formerly Listed as: FOSS STREET (West side) Nos.11 AND 11A)

GV II

Shop with house above. c1820-30, some late C19 and C20 alterations. Mixed construction; stone rubble party walls and plastered timber-framed fronts; rear and right end stacks with brick chimneyshafts, one rendered and both with old pots; slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window first-floor range. Plastered front is lightly blocked out as ashlar. Ground floor has late C19 timber 2-bay shop front without glazing bars and left end corner has large canted doorway with bottom-panelled glazed double doors and flanking pilasters. Shop front continues another 2 bays on return wall to Union Street. Panelled pilasters each end of the shop front with large shaped brackets to the fascia. At right end front, doorway to house contains late C20 panelled door under plain overlight. First floor has large sash windows, horned 4-pane sash to left but original 12-pane sash to right, and second floor has C20 casements. Moulded timber eaves cornice carried on pairs of modillions and pediment above. Hipped roof. Moulded cornice carried round return to Union Street, but here there are no paired modillions. Blind windows to Union Street. INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to be of interest. HISTORY: Foss Street represents the line of a medieval dam which included a tidal mill. The mill pond was filled in and developed around 1820-30, although houses had been built along the Foss from the C17 onwards.

Listing NGR: SX8770251433