21 Fore Street

Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1JS

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Overview

Possibly part of a former C18 coaching inn, with mid- to late-C19 principal elevation and ground-floor shopfront. Later alterations. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1105904
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: 21 Fore Street
Statutory Address:: Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1JS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1105904
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1986
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Nov-2023
List Entry Name:: 21 Fore Street
Statutory Address 1:: Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1JS

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:: Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1JS

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:: ST 02075 07272

Summary

Possibly part of a former C18 coaching inn, with mid- to late-C19 principal elevation and ground-floor shopfront. Later alterations.

Reasons for Designation

21 Fore Street is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* for its distinctive and well-preserved mid- to late C19 principal elevation, including the shopfront.

Historic interest:

* for its probable C18 core and the evidence provided in the historic maps that it formed part of the neighbouring C18 coaching inn, the White Hart.

Group value:

* with the adjacent White Hart (Grade II).

History

The 1831 insurance map of Cullompton by RP Davy and the tithe map of Cullompton (1839) indicate that 21 Fore Street formed part of the neighbouring coaching inn, The White Hart. By the mid- to late C19, it had been re-fronted and became a printers and stationery shop.

Details

Possibly part of a former C18 coaching inn, with mid- to late-C19 principal elevation and ground-floor shopfront. Later alterations.

MATERIAL: applied timber-framing to the first floor. The pitched roof is covered in slate tiles with crested ridge tiles. There is an axial chimney stack, with a rendered brick shaft.

EXTERIOR: of two storeys. The ground floor has a carriage entrance to the left and a mid- to late C19 shop front to the right. The shop front comprises a central recessed lobby entrance flanked by curved display windows with medium-sized panes of plate glass divided by glazing bars; beneath are panelled stall risers. Panelled pilasters support the fascia and cornice above, which incorporates three panels for signage. The first floor has three tiers of applied timber framing, with the lower tier featuring trefoil-headed arches. The Venetian-style oriel window to the left has three lights to the front and one to either side and square leaded lights above with coloured glass. It rests on a stone corbel which forms the keystone to the lintel, with scalloped clay tiles above the carriage entrance. The right-hand oriel window has two lights to the front, single lights to the canted sides, and segmental-headed leaded lights above with coloured glass. The gable to the left features scalloped tiles, and that to the right has a trefoil-headed, slatted ventilator; both have barge boards, pendants and finials.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 95289
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
Devon and Dartmoor Historic Environment Record, '21 Fore Street, Cullompton', (MDV80605)
Ordnance Survey, Devon (1889, 1:2500)
Tithe Map of Cullompton (1839)

Legal

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