78 AND 79, HIGH STREET
78 AND 79, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208777
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 78 AND 79, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 78 AND 79, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208777
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 78 AND 79, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 78 AND 79, 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:
- 78 AND 79, 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 82787 00391
Details
CREDITON
SS826000 HIGH STREET 672-1/5/86 (North side) 11/10/72 Nos.78 & 79
II
Pair of adjoining houses, No 79 altered to include a shop on the ground floor. Probably 1820s.Stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof; end stacks with brick shafts in party walls. Plan: Double depth, one room wide.The ground drops away to the rear where the houses have an extra storey and rear access with a service yard. Exterior: 3 storeys to the front, 4 to the rear. Each house has a one-window front and deep eaves on elaborately-shaped brackets. Pilaster between the houses (actually on the right end of No 78) has a sunk moulding with an arched head, No 79 has a plain right end pilaster. No 78 has a 5-panel front door with an overlight with geometric glazing bars (matching No 77, q.v.). Windows in the centre, the first floor window re-glazed with a late C19/early C20 2-pane sash with margin panes, second floor window a 3-light casement, 2 panes per light. No 79 preserves its original windows on the first and second floor: a 12-pane sash and 3/6-pane sash. The ground floor has a C20 plate glass shop window canted in towards a door at the right. Both houses have small round-headed rear stair windows, No 78 with stained glass. Interior: Not inspected but features of interest likely to survive. Group value with listed buildings on both sides of the High Street. The tall rear elevations, overlooking small gardens and a service area paved with irregular volcanic trap stones, contributes to an attractive urban group.
Listing NGR: SS8278700391
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387035
- 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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