1 Fore Street
Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1JW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168768
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 1 Fore Street
- Statutory Address:
- Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1JW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168768
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Dec-2023
- List Entry Name:
- 1 Fore Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1JW
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 1JW
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 02073 07353
Summary
Formerly the southern range of an early-C19 coaching inn, with possible C17 origins. Altered in the C19 and C20.
Reasons for Designation
1 Fore Street is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* for its classically-styled frontage which is well preserved.
Historic interest:
* as part of a former early-C19 inn, with possible C17 origins.
History
A building on the site of 1 Fore Street is shown on a plan of Cullompton dated 1633. By the early C19, a coaching inn had been erected and the 1831 insurance map of Cullompton by RP Davy labels the building as the ‘Half Moon Inn’, showing a central carriageway and a range to either side, with ancillary buildings to the rear. The tithe map of Cullompton (1839) also includes the Half Moon Inn. 1 Fore Street is marked as a public house on the 1889 Ordnance Survey map; the northern range of the inn having been sold for the erection of the town hall. 1 Fore Street (the carriageway and southern range of the former inn) became a house in the late C19. In the early to mid-C20 the building was used as a builder’s merchants, with offices and a builder’s yard to the rear.
Details
Formerly the southern range of an early-C19 coaching inn, with possible C17 origins. Altered in the C19 and C20.
MATERIALS: built of brick laid in Flemish bond, with a pitched roof covered in slate tiles. The truncated gable end chimney stack and the axial ridge stack are both built of brick.
PLAN: a single-pile principal range, with a carriage entrance to the left (north) giving access to the rear range.
EXTERIOR: the two-storey, principal elevation is arranged as five bays. The central, six-panel door has a semi-circular fanlight above and is framed by panelled reveals, with pilasters supporting the capitals and open triangular pediment, both with modillion detailing. To the ground floor are three six-over-six hornless sash windows with keystones above, a feature that is repeated to the four eight-over-eight hornless sash windows to the first floor. Above the carriage entrance is a semi-circular headed hornless sash window within a moulded architrave. To the left of this window is the decorative wrought iron bracket for the former pub sign. To the rear elevation, above the carriage entrance, is a six-over-six hornless sash window beneath a segmental head. To the rear of the principal range is a semi-circular headed stair window.
The rear range extends to the east.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95305
- 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
‘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.
Tithe Map of Cullompton (1839)
Ordnance Survey, Devon (1889, 1:2500)
Devon and Dartmoor Heritage Environment Record, '1 Fore Street, Cullompton', (MDV61345)
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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