65 Fore Street and 2 Lower Bull Ring
2 Lower Bull Ring, Cullompton, EX15 1DG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105913
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 65 Fore Street and 2 Lower Bull Ring
- Statutory Address:
- 2 Lower Bull Ring, Cullompton, EX15 1DG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105913
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Sept-2022
- List Entry Name:
- 65 Fore Street and 2 Lower Bull Ring
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2 Lower Bull Ring, Cullompton, EX15 1DG
- Statutory Address 2:
- 65 Fore Street, Cullompton, EX15 1JY
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:
- 2 Lower Bull Ring, Cullompton, EX15 1DG
- Statutory Address:
- 65 Fore Street, Cullompton, EX15 1JY
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 02080 07119
Summary
Pair of houses. Mid-C19, that to the left altered in around 1900.
Reasons for Designation
65 Fore Street and 2 Lower Bull Ring, Cullompton are listed for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* as a good example of a mid-C19 pair of houses;
* the houses retain their historic doorcases, and 65 Fore Street has attractive Art Nouveau-style early-C20 windows reflecting the fashions of the time.
Historic interest:
* potentially as part of the rebuilding of Cullompton after a great fire in 1839.
History
Lower Bull Ring may be the site of the first medieval marketplace in Cullompton, although the area is also recorded as a ‘baiting place’.
The building does not appear on the Tithe map of 1839 but is shown on the Ordnance Survey (OS) map of 1887 as a semi-detached property with small outshuts to the rear. The houses were constructed at the same time and have always been two separate dwellings. They may have been built after a devastating fire in 1839 destroyed many of the cob and thatched cottages in the area.
Details
Pair of semi-detached houses. Mid-C19, that to the left altered in around 1900.
MATERIALS: mainly brick, only rendered to the front. The slate roof has a gable-end to the left and is hipped to the right. There are end chimney stacks to left and right, and one axial chimney stack, all built with brick shafts.
PLAN: double-depth plan with a central rear staircase.
EXTERIOR: two storeys with a three-window range to both houses. That to the right has two-pane, unhorned sashes with margin panes to all five windows to the front. The left-hand house has bow windows of three panes with transoms, with the exception of the narrower central window of two panes to the first floor. The panes above the transoms to the first-floor windows have Art Nouveau-style glazing and coloured glass. Both have central porches with panelled doors and reveals, that to the right being corbelled. Semi-circular headed windows to the rear stairwells.
INTERIOR: understood to be altered.
The building was formerly listed as CULLOMPTON LOWER BULL RING, Cullompton ST 00 NW 10/129 Nos. 1 and 3.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95319
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
Heritage Gateway: Devon Historic Environment Record, accessed 25/07/2022 from https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV43746&resourceID=104
Other
Ordnance Survey, Devon (1887) (1:2500)
Ordnance Survey, Devon (1903) (1:2500)
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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