26 AND 28, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1097051
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: 26 AND 28, FORE STREET
Statutory Address:: 26 AND 28, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1097051
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: 26 AND 28, FORE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 26 AND 28, FORE STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 26 AND 28, FORE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Ide
National Grid Reference:: SX 90050 90614

Details

IDE FORE STREET, Ide SX 99 SW

2/70 Nos 26 and 28 -

GV II

2 adjoining houses. Late medieval origins, considerable later alteration. Whitewashed rendered cob; corrugated iron roof over thatch to left hand property (no. 28), asbestos slate roof over thatch to right hand property (no. 26), stack at left end of range, axial stack at right end of no. 28, axial cob stack with brick shaft projecting through the roof behind the ridge of no. 26. Complex development. Single depth range, probably 5 rooms wide (interior of no. 28 not inspected). At least 2 phases of late medieval construction. A very heavily sooted 2-bay medieval roof survives over the left hand end and centre of the range, as far as the axial stack of no. 26. This stack is aligned with a massive cob wall which rises to the apex of the roof. To the right of the wall a second smoke- blackened roof with a higher ridge line extends for 2 bays. The remnants of a 3rd bay (probably not smoke-blackened) are visible at the extreme right hand of the range. It seems possible that the roofs represent 2 adjoining open hall houses, the left hand 2 bays constituting one house, the right hand 3 bays being a second house that may have had a storeyed l-bay right end. The putative 2-bay house at the left end presents difficulties of interpretation since the right hand wall projects above the level of the sooted roof (which is complete with smoke blackened thatch) and the wall is smoke-blackened above the level of the roof. There seem to be 2 possible explanations for this: either the present roof is a replacement of an earlier medieval roof which had a higher ridge line, or there was some form of smoke louvre at the right end which has sooted the wall above the height of the present roof. The sequence of flooring over throughout the range is not clear, although some ground floor details in no. 26 suggest that the putative left end house was floored over quite late, possibly late C17. There is no hard evidence for a through passage in the range. 2 storeys. Irregular 2 + 3 window front. No. 28 has a C20 front door at the extreme right and regular fenestration of C20 small-pane top-hung casements. No. 26 has a front door at the extreme left and a large boarded opening at the extreme right. To the left of this opening is a small recess, possibly a blocked door. Various C20 casement windows with diamond leaded panes. Interior of No. 26: Ground floor room left has a C20 grate, possibly concealing an earlier fireplace, chamfered axial beam. The narrow central room has a winder stair against the rear wall. The roofs are of especial interest. The main trusses are probably jointed crucks. The 2 right hand bays have chamfered butt purlins, cambered collars mortised into the principals which are butted at the apex with a diagonally set ridge. The stumps of the extreme right hand bay purlins are visible. One of the purlins in the left hand bay has broken, the other has a diagonal cut stop and its left hand end projects through the cob wall being secured with a peg. The 2 left hand medieval roof bays (below a modern roof) are unusual in being a common rafter design without a ridge. The extreme left hand bay is very complete with heavily sooted thatch and battens, some thatch and battens survive over the right hand bay. A diagonally-set short piece of timber, heavily sooted, is fixed in the right hand cob wall and is of unknown function. At the right end of the range a chamfered cross beam with diagonal stops may indicate the storeyed end of the medieval left hand house. An open hall window is said to survive beneath the render, having been uncovered some years ago during renovations. It extended across the line of the first floor and had timber cusped tracery. Although the front elevation of the range has been altered in the C20, the 2 houses are of considerable historical and archaeological interest.

Listing NGR: SX9005090614

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.