137, HIGH STREET
137, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197079
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 137, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 137, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197079
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 137, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 137, HIGH 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:
- 137, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 83265 00304
Details
CREDITON
SS826000 HIGH STREET 672-1/5/111 (North side) 19/03/51 No.137
GV II
House or commercial building, now shop, office and restaurant with accommodation above. Late C18 or early C19; late C19 alterations; refurbishment of the 1980s. Front elevation handmade Flemish bond brick with painted dressings, right return and rear plastered, some cob construction; tarred hipped slate roof behind parapet; axial and rear lateral stacks with brick shafts. Plan: U-plan with projecting rear wings and single depth main block. Exterior: 3 storeys & basement. Deep, moulded cornice below parapet with a platband below cornice. Front elevation symmetrical above the ground floor, 3-bays with left and right pilasters, the centre bay slightly broken forward with pilasters and a boldly moulded pediment with a blind roundel with a moulded frame in the tympanum and a (disused) clock face on the roundel. The outer bays have platbands at second floor sill level. Piano nobile first floor, the centre window with a moulded architrave and triangular pediment on consoles; left and right windows with moulded architraves, all first floor windows glazed with 2-light high transomed casements with glazing bars and margin panes. 3 first floor windows with moulded architraves, glazed with 2/4 pane sashes with margin panes. Left hand shop window, altered in the late C20 retains a late C19 fascia and is flanked by doors (left hand door blocked) with doorcases with pilasters with a fret decoration below the capitals. The right hand doorway has a recessed C20 glazed door with an overlight. C20 plate glass shop front and door to ground floor right (now an office). The right return, facing North Street, is one-bay with a high tansomed first floor window and a half basement window. The rear wing has various C19 timber casements and sashes and incorporates an old cast iron street sign with a pointing hand. The rear elevation has a rear centre C19 doorcase with moulded brackets and a round-headed stair window with margin panes. Various timber casements and sashes include a sliding sash on the inner return of the rear right wing. Interior: Not fully inspected but contains good open well stick baluster stair with a ramped mahogany handrail to the rear and some of the flats are noted as having slate chimney-pieces.
Listing NGR: SS8324900315
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387061
- 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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