Nos 14 to 17 Including Front Railings

NOS 14 TO 17 INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS, 14-17, ELLIOTT PLAIN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209058
Date first listed:
30-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:
Nos 14 to 17 Including Front Railings
Statutory Address:
NOS 14 TO 17 INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS, 14-17, ELLIOTT PLAIN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209058
Date first listed:
30-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:
Nos 14 to 17 Including Front Railings
Statutory Address 1:
NOS 14 TO 17 INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS, 14-17, ELLIOTT PLAIN

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NOS 14 TO 17 INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS, 14-17, ELLIOTT PLAIN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Buckfastleigh
National Park:
Dartmoor
National Grid Reference:
SX7414566108

Details

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7466 ELLIOTT PLAIN
1011-1/7/65 (North side)
Nos.14-17 (Consecutive)
including front railings

GV II

Terrace of houses. c1840, said to have been thoroughly
renovated c1975. Local grey limestone rubble, front elevation
stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof; stacks with stone rubble
shafts.
Plan: terrace of double-depth houses, backing onto small yards
bounded by Dean Burn, a small river running through the town.
The terrace has 3 front doors but at least one of the houses
(No.17) is said at one time to have been two 2-cell cottages
sharing a common passage entrance. No.17, the left end house
has a curved convex front wall.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2:1:2-window front. Deep
projecting eaves with paired eaves brackets. No.17 is 2 rooms
wide with a central front door. Nos 16 & 15 appear to share a
common entrance. No.14 has a doorway to the right. All doors
are C20 timber or small-pane glazed replacements in original
embrasures, preserving overlights, the overlight to Nos 15/16
has margin panes. Windows mostly original 16-pane hornless
sashes with a couple of later copies and 2 reglazed as 4-pane
horned sashes but preserving original embrasures. Rear
elevations have 3-light casement windows with glazing bars and
flat-roofed attic dormer windows.
INTERIOR: No.17 inspected. Plan altered and original joinery
replaced but roof structure appears to be intact. Some
original internal walling remains and is studwork with stone
rubble infill. No.16 also appears to have been replanned
internally but features of interest may survive.
Subsidiary features: ornate railings have square section
verticals with twisted finials. Nos 14 & 17 preserve original
gates with curved diagonal braces. An attractive street
frontage, which makes a significant contribution to the
townscape at the junction with Fore Street and Station Road.


Listing NGR: SX7414566108

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
392262
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.

Ordnance survey map of Nos 14 to 17 Including Front Railings

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