49 AND 51, FORE STREET
49 AND 51, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217881
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 49 AND 51, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 49 AND 51, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217881
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 49 AND 51, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 49 AND 51, FORE 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:
- 49 AND 51, FORE STREET
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:
- SX 73981 66142
Details
BUCKFASTLEIGH
SX7366 FORE STREET 1011-1/6/86 (North side) 06/01/83 Nos.49 AND 51 (Formerly Listed as: FORE STREET (South side) Nos.49, 50 AND 51)
GV II
2 houses, one with shop, No.50 formerly a bakery said to have been associated with a flour mill in the rear court. c1790s with evidence of earlier building phase to rear. Local grey limestone rubble; slate roof gabled at ends; stacks with cement-rendered shaft with platbands; cast-iron gutter. Plan: main block one room deep, 2 rooms wide with a central through-passage and deep rear plot flanked with walls. Rear of No.49 has a rendered rear wing at right-angles. Rear of No.51 has a 2-storey wing of late C17 or early C18 date. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front with regular fenestration. Modillion eaves cornice. Ground floor has central entrance to passage with recessed overlight; passage paved with local limestone. To the left, No.49 has a C20 replaced timber door, one 16-pane C20 timber sash window alongside to the right and two 4-pane horned sashes. Shop front to right has left and right pilasters and an entablature with a cornice with a moulded frieze. 3-light late C19 or early C20 shop window with moulded frame and mullions. Entrance to shop through half-glazed door in passage. 4 first- and 4 second-floor windows, all 12-pane late C18 or early C19 sashes. INTERIOR: right-hand block has a massive bread oven on right-hand wall of rear room. The oven, probably mid C19, is lined with neatly-laid stone and has been truncated at the front. The same room has a chamfered, step-stopped axial beam. An interesting building with traces of earlier origins. The walling and ruins in the rear court (not included) are associated with the former industrial use of this medieval plot. The mill at the end of the plot has been demolished.
Listing NGR: SX7398166142
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392280
- 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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