65 Fore Street

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

BOVEY TRACEY FORE STREET, Bovey Tracey SX 8178

11/71 No. 65 - 16,1 .86 GV II

House. Late C16 or C17 with C20 addition at rear. Stone and cob; front wall covered with roughcast, except for patches of C20 render. Thatched roof (the only one left in main street) hipped at each end. C20 brick chimney-shaft at right-hand end. 2 storeys, with single-storey brick lean-to at rear. 2 windows wide, all windows C19 of wood. Doorway at extreme left of ground storey has plank door. 2 windows in centre of ground storey. To left a 2-light casement, each light with 8 panes, to right a 6-pane lower light with 3-pane transom light. In second storey 2 smaller windows at different levels; to left a 2-light casement with 6 panes per light, to right a similar window with one horizontally sliding sash.

Interior: ground plan consists of through passage to left and a single room to right. Passage has thick, plain joists above; at rear a chamfered wood door-frame, originally straight-headed, but converted to a shouldered head in C20. The room has projecting chimney-breast with C20 fireplace in right-hand gable. Beside it, to rear, a newel staircase partly set into a semi-circular recess in the wall.

Probably original fireplaces, ceiling-beams, roof-timbers and other features concealed under plaster.

Listing NGR: SX8162178506

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1374 IOE Records taken by M J Medley; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr M J Medley. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project