No 19 Including Bridge Over Which It Is Built

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7466 ELLIOTT PLAIN 1011-1/7/66 (North East side) 06/01/83 No.19 including bridge over which it is built

GV II

House, including bridge on which it is built. Early C19. Roughcast; slate roof, hipped at right end, roof continuous with No.24 Station Road (qv) at left end; left end stack, the shaft rendered and blocked out with platband and old pots. Plan: built on a single-span stone bridge over Dean Burn. Double-depth plan, 2 rooms wide, heated from end stacks with a central entrance into a corridor and stair rising to the rear. Bathroom additions built onto rear onto an iron girder extension, widening the original bridge. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and part cellar. Symmetrical 3-bay front with an original central 6-panel front door, the upper panels fielded; plain overlight. Doorcase with pilasters with capitals, entablature and projecting cornice. Outer windows original 16-pane hornless sashes; 12-pane sash to first-floor centre. Rear elevation has some window replacement with aluminium-frame windows. INTERIOR: chimneypieces missing but joinery intact including 6-panel doors with doorcases, skirtings. An attractive town house in a prominent position in the streetscape, facing up Fore Street. The construction over the bridge is unusual.

Listing NGR: SX7413466117