The Dartmouth Archives - A Dartmouth History Research Group Project

Commercial Buildings

Index of Commercial buildings in and around Dartmouth including; Documents on the history, restoration and leases of Butterwalk, Census, Deeds and Directory entries for Royal Oak and Lidstone Boatyard and other premisses.

Butterwalk Leases

Precis of leases for the Butterwalk in the 17th Century view document

Butterwalk history

Part of a draft document on the history of the Butterwalk. view document

Butterwalk restoration

Letter from Ray Freeman to the Dartmouth Chronicle pointing out several inaccuracies in a recent article view document

Royal oak 1861 Census

People in the Royal Oak PH on the night of the census view document

4 The Quay, a town house

4 THE QUAY, DARTMOUTH: A DEVON TOWN-HOUSE OF
1664
A detailed document of the building which has a mixed Residential and Comercial use view document

Barrington House, tracing it past.

Previously named Townstal House. There is a record of the land being leased from Mr. Henry P.Seale and others to a Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 1867, a conveyance from William Smith to Ralph Richardson in 1873, then conveyed to the Rev. John Aldous in 1880.
Three other villas were built about 1870 in the area, Redwalls, Ashleigh and Rook House. However Swinnerton Lodge dates from about 1830, and Boringdon (formerly Townstal Villa and Bexley) from about 1850.

The list of Conveyances shows various owners and lessees from 1936 to 1988, including Mr. Williams, Lt.Comm. and Mrs. Bryer (Fryer ?), Emily Linsdell, Mr. and Mrs. F.Baker, Sansum Investments, Mr. J.Pedersen, Mr. and Mrs. Pedersen and Mr. Hawke. During this time the house became a hotel. Mrs. Baker also mentions a Mr. Legge and a Mr. Royle (who named the hotel the Royal House Hotel) as later owners. In 2000 Mrs. Baldwin renamed the hotel as Barrington House Hotel.
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Lidstones Boatyard

MEMORIES OF THE LIDSTONE BOAT YARD,SOUTHTOWN.
Miss Win Lidstone celebrated her 99th birthday. Here she tells the story of her family’s business and her early memories of living above it to Ray Freeman.

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Directory of Businesses

Contains information on past shops and businesses in Dartmouth. This page is still under development. New information is always welcome, with the source if possible. view document

Restoration of the Butterwalk

Document Number: TO/Ad/Pr/006
Document Held: DTC
Civic re-opening and dinner

HJ Adams – Mayor
David Eccles – Minister of Works
JCSR Stoneman – Deputy Mayor
Brigadier Rayner
Captain Crawford
Alderman Lavers
The Earl of Euston
Councillor FCB Kirk
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Conveyance of Mills

Document Number: TO/Ad/Pr/010
Document Held: DRO Exeter
The town mills were conveyed to Holdsworth by Pollexfen and Julian his wife which Julian was the widow of – Roope. By lease 161 Ambrose Roope granted to the Town the water from Ford Meadow to the conduit in the Churchyard.

Between:- Arthur Holdsworth
Mayor, Bailiffs and Burgesses of Borough

Paid £450 to AH by Mayor, Bailiffs and Burgesses of Borough for 2 corn or water grist mills and 1 malt mill together with the mill pool and a certain Kay (quay) lately erected by – (sic) Wills late of Stoke Fleming yeoman deceased on north side on or near the Foss.

Also garden and stable at North ford at head of the Mill Pool and 2 closed of land or meadow at North Ford one on North side and one on South side of a close called North Ford which belong to the Mills litter (sic) together with mills, mill pool and 2 closed occupied by Richard Toms then John Ching then in possession of Cornelius Hayne Esq deceased.


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Lease for cellars and loft at Harnesse (formerly Sykes)

Document Number: TO/Ad/Pr/013
Document Held: DRO Exeter
Arthur Hunt, Redlap, Stoke Flemin – Merchant
Arthur Howe Holdsworth, Mt Galpine House, Dartmouth – Esquire
Rev Rob Holdsworth, Brookhill – Clerk
Hy Holdsworth, Hardness House – Esquire
Edmund Pollexfen Bastard, Kitley House
Mayor, Bailiffs and Burgesses of Borough of Darmouth
John Oldreive, Landcombe, Blackawton – Land Surveyor (nominated by and in trust for AH Holdsworth

Lease and release of 22 October 1772, Borough of Dartmouth to Thomas Taylor Esq. Sum of forty ______ (sic) punds paid by John Oldreive ___ for all that palace or courtlage and yard with the cellars and lofts and storehouses at Hardnesse which extend from the street to the water eastward as far as the eastside of the Pallace formerly of Arthur Champernowne Esq, 34 feet from the palace to the South and bounded by the lands of Arthur Champernowne Esq on North, the water on East, a small plot belonging to Parish of Townstal and the slip belongin to the Corporation on South and the street on West. All this property to John Oldreive from 25 March 1833 for 79 years on Trust for AH Holdsworth, rent of 5 shillings 4 times a year.

Plus seals and signatures.

Index to Commercial Buildings

Details of Commercial Buildings where information is held view document

Jesse Celing, Dartmouth's unique plaster ceiling

DARTMOUTH’S UNIQUE PLASTER CEILING.
Situated in one of Dartmouth’s finest buildings, No. 12 the Butterwalk this beautifully designed plaster ceiling depicting the Tree of Jesse is probably the only surviving Jesse plaster ceiling in the world. view document

Hawke Ernest, Furnishers

Summary of documents relating to Ernest M Hawke of Duke St Dartmouth. PDF format view document