3, Foss Street

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 FOSS STREET 673-1/8/133 (West side) 23/10/72 No.3 (Formerly Listed as: FOSS STREET (West side) Nos.1 AND 3)

GV II

Shop with house above. Probably C18, with some C19 and C20 modernisation. Mixed construction; stone rubble with plastered timber-framed front; no visible chimneyshafts; slate roof. PLAN: One room wide and 2 rooms deep with passage to left. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic; 2-window first-floor range. Plaster front lightly blocked out as ashlar. C20 shop front, 3-light window with shop door to right. House doorway recessed to left also contains C20 door. Horned 4-pane sashes above. Moulded timber eaves includes large modillion frieze. Parallel gable-ended roof includes front gabled dormer. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: Foss Street follows the line of a medieval dyke which dammed a tidal creek and included a tidal mill. The mill pool was filled in and developed around 1820-30, although houses were built along the Foss from the C17 onwards.

Listing NGR: SX8771251399