1, FORE STREET
1, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146866
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 1, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1, FORE STREET
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- 2004-05-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/12222/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146866
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 1, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, FORE STREET
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:
- 1, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Tawton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 66322 01765
Details
NORTH TAWTON FORE STREET, NORTH TAWTON SS 60 SE 13/103 No. 1 GV II House. Early C17 possibly with earlier origins. Rendered cob walls. Gable ended thatched roof. Projecting rendered stone lateral stack with brick shaft, small brick shaft at right end. Plan: originally 3-room-and-through-passage plan, lower end to the right whose gable end fireplace may have been inserted. Hall heated by front lateral stack. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front of circa late C19 6-pane sashes except for 3-light C20 casement to left on ground floor. C20 part glazed to left and C20 panelled door to right of centre. Interior: most early features concealed by later modernisation. One rough beam is visible in the lower room; there is reputed to be a blocked staircase next to its fireplace. 2 early C18 fielded 2-panel doors survive. Roof: trusses replaced apart from one C17 truss with a collar halved on with dovetail joint. This is one of the few early houses to survive in the town centre and it occupies a prominent position.
Listing NGR: SS6631501760
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92986
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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