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Summary

House, including bridge on which it is built. Early 19th century. Roughcast; slate roof, hipped at right end, roof continuous with No. 24 Station Road at left end; left end stack, the shaft rendered and blocked out with platband and old pots. An attractive town house in a prominent position in the streetscape, facing up Fore Street. The construction over the bridge is unusual.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1210086: NO 19 INCLUDING BRIDGE OVER WHICH IT IS BUILT

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX76NW/87
• Old Listed Building Ref (II)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BRIDGE (Constructed, XVIII to XIX - 1800 AD to 1850 AD)
• HOUSE (Constructed, XVIII to XIX - 1800 AD to 1850 AD)

Full description

Department of Environment, 1983, Buckfastleigh, 11 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV337043.

No 19, Elliott Plain. Includes No 24 Station Road. Early 19th century roughcast stone pair of houses under one hipped roof clad in asbestos slates. Two storeys. Three bay elevations facing Elliott Plain and Station Road with sash windows complete with glazing bars and central doorways with pilastered doorcases with entablatures, rectangular fanlights and panelled doors. No 19 Elliott Plain has modern shutters to its windows. No 24 Station Road has 19th century wrought iron railings on stone rubble retaining wall.

Dartmoor National Park Authority, 1997, Buckfastleigh Conservation Area Partnership Scheme (CAPS) photographs (Photograph). SDV365552.

Ordnance Survey, 2017, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV359962.

19 Elliot Plain is depicted on the modern mapping.

Historic England, 2017, National Heritage List for England, Accessed 09/01/2017 (National Heritage List for England). SDV359963.

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

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8934 - Condition survey of Buckfastleigh Conservation Area

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