20 Fore Street

Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1JL

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Overview

Former open-hall house probably built in the late C16 or early C17; remodelled and re-fronted in the C19. Later alterations. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1168724
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: 20 Fore Street
Statutory Address:: Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1JL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1168724
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1986
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Nov-2023
List Entry Name:: 20 Fore Street
Statutory Address 1:: Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1JL

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 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:: ST 02053 07256

Summary

Former open-hall house probably built in the late C16 or early C17; remodelled and re-fronted in the C19. Later alterations.

Reasons for Designation

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

Architectural interest:

* as a regionally distinctive late-C16 or early-C17 house built of cob and local stone; * for the evidence provided in the historic fabric, including smoke-blackening to the north truss, for a former open-hall house; * for its retention of a significant proportion of its historic features, including moulded and stopped ceiling beams, plank and muntin screen, winder staircase and king-post roof trusses; * for the overall quality of craftsmanship exhibited in the fixtures and fittings.

Historic interest:

* for its contribution to our understanding of the development of domestic architecture in the late C16 or early C17; * for its retention of an atrophic mark to the timber bressummer of a fireplace.

History

20 Fore Street appears to have origins as an open-hall house of probable late-C16 or early-C17 date and is shown on a plan of Cullompton dated 1633. A bay of the open hall and the upper end is retained in the existing building, with the other bay of the hall and lower end having been demolished. The building was re-fronted in the early C19, coinciding with the raising of the roof and the alteration to the roof pitch to extend the building to the street front (east).

Details

Former open-hall house probably built in the late C16 or early C17; remodelled and re-fronted in the C19. Later alterations.

MATERIALS: built of cob and stone, covered in render. The roofs are covered with slate tiles. Brick gable-end chimney stacks.

EXTERIOR: the three-storey principal elevation is a C19 re-fronting of a late-C16 or early-C17 house, and is arranged as two bays with a pitched roof and gable-end chimney stacks. The frontage is framed by decorative timber pilasters and a deeply overhanging eaves cornice with concave coving beneath. To the first floor is a timber plat band with guttae detailing, and across the width of the ground floor is a clay-tiled pentice roof, with a moulded fascia beneath that incorporates a continuous series of guttae. To the ground floor are three doorways, with transom lights above, separated by two, square bay windows of plate glass with leaded transom lights. The first-floor oriel windows, supported on timber brackets, are beneath pentice roofs and have casement windows of plate glass with three-light leaded windows above. To the second floor are two, eight-over-eight hornless sash windows with moulded architraves and hoods incorporated into the coving.

The side elevation retains a late-C16 or early-C17 square-headed, ovolo-moulded door frame with a later six-panel door. There is an eight-over-eight hornless sash window to its left.

INTERIOR: retains late-C16 or early-C17 fixtures and fittings including a fireplace with splayed stone jambs and timber bressummer incorporating an apotropaic mark; a timber plank and muntin screen; ceiling beams with cyma reversa moulding and step hollow stops; and a winder staircase. The roof has three king-post roof trusses with diagonally jointed principal rafters that are morticed and side-pegged with a notch for the ridge-piece. There is evidence of smoke blackening to the truss in the north wall, later infilled with wattle and daub.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 95292
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (2004), 305
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
‘A Plan and description of all the landes belonging to the Barton and Manor of Padbrooke and Paunsford in the parishes of Cullumpton and Bradninch in the Countye of Devon the lands of Padbrooke being divided into 4 Tenements…all which are parcell of the possessions of the Right Worshipful Sir William Courten of London, knight', surveyed by William Jennings of Evershott, 1633.
Devon and Dartmoor Historic Environment Record, '20 Fore Street, Cullompton', (MDV73803)
OS Map 1:2500 (1889)

Legal

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