12 Fore Street
Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1JL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105903
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 12 Fore Street
- Statutory Address:
- Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1JL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105903
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Nov-2023
- List Entry Name:
- 12 Fore Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1JL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1JL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cullompton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST0205107277
Summary
Early to mid-C19 house with late C20 ground-floor shopfront. C20 and C21 alterations. The ground floor shop unit now forms part of 14 and 16 Fore Street.
Reasons for Designation
12 Fore Street is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Historic interest:
* as an early- to mid-C19 former house.
Group value:
* for its group value with the Grade II-listed 10 Fore Street with which it formed a single building in the late C19, both retaining the remains of the C19 shopfront that spanned the building;
* for its group value with the Grade II-listed 14 and 16 Fore Street with which part of the ground floor is now amalgamated.
History
12 Fore Street was built in the early to mid-C19 as a single-bay house, infilling the plot between 10 and 14 Fore Street. The building is shown on the 1831 map of Cullompton by RP Davy with a narrow passage between it and 10 Fore Street to the north. By the late C19, as shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey map, 10 and 12 Fore Street had been amalgamated to form a single building. A new shopfront was created across the frontage and a pilaster with a console bracket above survives to the outer corner of both 10 and 12 Fore Street. By the late C20, they had been re-divided into two separate shop units; the shopfronts are late C20 insertions. The passage had been retained internally and continues to provide access to Hungerford Court to the rear of 10 Fore Street. In the early C21, the shop unit of 12 Fore Street was knocked through to the shop unit of 14 and 16 Fore Street to the south, to form a single commercial unit.
Details
Early to mid-C19 house with late-C20 ground-floor shopfront. C20 and C21 alterations. The ground floor shop unit now forms part of 14 and 16 Fore Street.
MATERIALS: built of stone that is covered with render.
EXTERIOR: a three-storey, single-bay façade. To the ground floor is a late-C20, dual-aspect, multi-pane shopfront window, with a door to its north side. To the left of the shopfront is a late-C19 console bracket supported on a reeded pilaster with a Tudor rose motif. There is a one-over-one horned sash window with plain architrave to the first and second floors. The roof is concealed.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95287
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
A Ground Plan of the Town and Environs of Cullompton from a Survey made July MDCCCXXXI, Measured and mapped by RP Davy, Cullompton, 1831
Ordnance Survey, Devon (1889, 1:2500)
Ordnance Survey, Devon (1989, 1:2500)
Lawrence, G, ‘Heritage Appraisal: 12-16 Fore Street’, associated with Listed Building Consent application submitted to Mid-Devon District Council (13/01500/LBC)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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