The Limes

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CREDITON

SS834000 EAST STREET 672-1/6/38 (North side) 11/10/72 The Limes & No 2 The Limes

GV II

House, divided into 2, No 2 The Limes to the right. Circa 1700 but possibly incorporating part of a medieval building; alterations and additions of c.1900. Stone, the front elevation cement-rendered and blocked out, the rear and sides roughcast. c.1900 additions in red brick with some slate-hanging; slate roof; stacks with brick shafts. Plan: Double-depth main block,2 rooms wide with a central entrance into a stair hall and rear right service block with service stair; rear left addition of c.1900 with additional service rooms. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay front with plain clasping pilasters, a platband at first floor level and below the parapet, which ramps up to a panel in the centre bay. Central C18 timber Tuscan porch to recessed 6-panel front door with panelled reveals. 5 first and 4 ground floor 12-pane early C18 sashes with flush frames and moulded architraves. The return walls have a toothed brick band below the eaves. The left return (The Limes) has one matching first floor window and a similar window on the return of the extension, presumably re-sited from the rear elevation. Round-headed rear stair window with spoke glazing bars. The circa 1900 rear addition is roofed at right angles to the main block with an M roof and bullnose brick corners. The right return of the main block (No 2, The Limes), has an Edwardian lean-to porch, set back from the front elevation, re-using a panelled door. The rear addition is slate-hung to the first floor. Interior: Mixture of circa 1700, and Victorian and Edwardian fittings. These include, in No 2 The Limes, 2 bolection moulded chimney-pieces of circa 1700 on the ground floor, one re-sited from the first floor, one 2-panel door of circa 1700, Edwardian wall panelling. Other joinery is Victorian, including panelled doors. Painted cast iron bath with mahogany and pine boxing is dated 1903, which may provide the precise date for the Edwardian phase. First floor re-planned in the 1980s. The Limes includes a good C17 stair with turned balusters and square newels, introduced or reset circa 1903.Edwardian panelling to the stair hall with one section of C18 fielded panelling on the first floor. 2-panel c.1700 door on the ground floor, other joinery Victorian or Edwardian. In the course of decoration the occupier of The Limes discovered a moulded stone archway on the left (west) end wall of the house, towards the front. This rose to approximately ground floor ceiling level and is said to have had a pointed head. The wall is slightly thicker than the other external walls of the house, and is probably medieval. In the garden to the west, footings have been found. Mr Richard John King, the editor of Murrays Guide to Devon and friend of the historian, Froude, lived at The Limes (Pope). An interesting house in its own right, pre-dating the 1743 fire of Crediton. The building and its site may be of considerable archaeological interest. (Pope, W.,: Glimpses of the Past in and around Crediton: 1927-: P.16).

Listing NGR: SS8384700135

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Pope, W, Glimpses of the Past in and around Crediton, (1927), 16

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