23 AND 24, HIGH STREET
23 AND 24, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208671
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 23 AND 24, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 23 AND 24, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2003-03-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/10253/16
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208671
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 23 AND 24, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23 AND 24, 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:
- 23 AND 24, 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 83146 00310
Details
SS826000
672-1/5/60
11/10/72
CREDITON HIGH STREET(South side)Nos.23 & 24
GII
Two shops with accommodation over.Probably 1820s,perhaps a recasting of a mid C18 building;mid C19 shop front.Roughcast with a slate roof;end stacks with brick shafts.Plan:Double depth with central passageway.Exterior:three storeys.three-bay front,originally symmetrical above the ground floor.Moulded cornice below low parapet that rises in the centre as a segmental-headed panel.Early C19 sash windows:second floor four/eight-pane in the outer bays;three/six in the centre.First floor window left is a sixteen-pane sash,centre window twelve-pane,left hand window a circa late C19 bay with a slate roof and moulded cornice,sixteen-pane sash may be the early C19 window re-used.The left hand building has a good mid C19 shop front,the design extending across the central passage.The shop front is symmetrical with a central doorway flanked by two-light windows.Chanelled pilasters with incised fret moulding to left and right of the shop front and flanking the doorway;moulded consoles to the end pilasters support the fascia and a moulded cornice.Slightly recessed glazed shop door with a low fielded panel and(blocked)overlight.The two-pane round-headed windows with moulded arches are divided into two lights each by a half shaft with moulded capital;ornamental wrought iron decoration in the spandrels.The right hand building has a C20 plate glass window with a C20 doorway to the shop to the left.Interior:Not inspected but may retain features of interest.
Listing NGR: SS8314800307
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387010
- 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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