Britannia House

TEIGNMOUTH

SX9372 TEIGN STREET 25-1/6/207 (South side) 21/06/77 No.26 Britannia House

GV II

House. c1700 with mid C19 alterations. Painted stucco with double-pile steeply-pitched hipped roofs with one tall brick stack to the right return and 2 to the left return; painted stone plinth. Double-depth central through-passage plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 3-window range. Early C19 6-over-6 pane sash windows to the front, early C19 central doorcase of pilasters supporting an entablature, panelled reveals and soffit, overlight incorporating a painted-over semi-elliptical fanlight. A narrow half-glazed 2-panel door is to the far right. The rear was refenestrated mid C19 with tripartite windows to the 1st floor and French windows below, all now in the course of restoration. The central 6-panel door has raised and fielded panels, panelled reveals and soffit and a semicircular fanlight. C19 central dormer. INTERIOR: thin early C18 3-panel doors. Ground-floor rooms have chamfered axial beams. The room to the rear left has raised-and-fielded panelling below the dado rail and a narrow cyma-moulded cornice to walls and beam. To the front right of the entrance a closed-string staircase with 2 short flights between floors has straight moulded handrails, heavy turned balusters and square newels, that over the ground floor with a turned pendant. The 1st flight from the ground floor was altered mid C19 when a rounded handrail and stick balusters were inserted. The passage has C19 fluted moulding to the dado rail. 1st-floor rooms to the right have thick cyma-moulded fire surrounds with C19 mantelshelves and segmental arches to the openings, both flues enter the one large stack to the right return. The attics are plastered but visible bases to rafters and those in the roof space are of sawn wood, probably replaced C19. Shallow floor joists (not seen) are said to be of halved tree trunks.

Listing NGR: SX9385672926