Description

SX9255
1946-1/7/74
10/01/75

BRIXHAM
BURTON STREET, Higher Brixham
(North side (off))
No.11
Parkham Villa

GV
II

Detached house on hillside above Burton Street, facing east.
Early C19. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slated roof. 2
red-brick chimneys on rear wall. Rendered chimney on rear
wing.
Plan of 2 rooms-wide with entrance hall and staircase between
them; behind the stair a rear wing running at right-angles
back to a lean-to structure of possibly earlier date.
2 storeys. 3 windows wide. Segmental-arched centre doorway
with flanking fluted pilasters, panelled reveals, fanlight
with radial bars; original door with 2 flush bottom panels,
the upper part with late C20 glazing. French windows at either
side; that to left has 3 panels per door with transom-lights;
that to right has 4-paned sashes with margin-panes, the bottom
part having short panelled doors. In front of the ground
storey is a raised stone-paved terrace with trellised verandah
having a swept slated roof; right-hand end glazed in late C19
with four 9-paned fixed sashes. In centre a flight of stone
steps with iron railing at either side; these have thin square
balusters with a twisted section in the middle, handrail
voluted at the foot over a moulded newel. Upper-storey windows
have plain sashes. Deep flat eaves-cornice extending round
both side walls. Left side wall has no original windows, but a
late C20 bay window has been inserted in the ground storey.
INTERIOR: geometrical wood staircase with thin square
balusters and shaped step-ends, the handrail voluted at the
bottom. Entrance-hall and both front rooms have moulded
cornices. 6-panelled doors leading out of hall and panelled
shutters to front windows, all with a raised moulding on the
panel. Right-hand front room has white marble chimneypiece
with shelf on carved brackets. Earliest title deed in
possession of owner in 1991 dated to 1868, but there had been
3 previous owners by then.

Listing NGR: SX9237755602

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503648

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