13, Foss Street

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 FOSS STREET 673-1/8/139 (West side) 23/10/72 No.13

GV II

Shop with house above. Late C18/early C19, some C20 alterations. Mixed construction; stone rubble party walls and plastered timber-framed front; left end stack with rendered brick chimneyshaft; slate roof. PLAN: One room wide and 2 rooms deep with passage along right party wall. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; one-window range. Plastered front is lightly blocked out as ashlar. Ground floor has altered C19 timber 2-bay shop front without glazing bars and right end recessed doorway, now containing a C20 door. First and second floors each contain single mid C20 three-light window without glazing bars. Timber modillion eaves cornice. Roof between adjoining properties. 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: SX8770051438