16 Fore Street
16, Fore Street, Buckfastleigh, TQ11 0BT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217954
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 16 Fore Street
- Statutory Address:
- 16, Fore Street, Buckfastleigh, TQ11 0BT
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217954
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 16 Fore Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16, Fore Street, Buckfastleigh, TQ11 0BT
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:
- 16, Fore Street, Buckfastleigh, TQ11 0BT
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 74062 66136
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 October 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SX7466
1011-1/7/98
BUCKFASTLEIGH
FORE STREET (South side)
No 16
(Formerly listed as National Westminster Bank)
06/01/83
GV
II
Assembly rooms to King's Arms Hotel (qv), formerly bank. c1820s.
Stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof, hipped at ends; end stacks with brick shafts with platbands; cast-iron guttering stamped with lions' heads.
Plan: the building incorporates a tall carriageway entrance to the left leading to the former courtyard at the rear. The assembly rooms were on the first floor with massive windows on the front, ground-floor rooms of unknown function. The plan has been altered, the ground floor converted to a banking floor and offices upstairs include some ceiling of the assembly rooms.
EXTERIOR: two storeys. Asymmetrical but regular four-window front. Deep eaves with eaves cornice. Ground floor has massively tall carriageway entrance to left. To the right a central recessed doorway with C20 replacement door and overlight. Pilastered doorcase with moulded capitals, entablature and projecting cornice. Door flanked by windows with moulded eared architraves with sill blocks. Windows twelve-pane sashes, the lower lights altered and made blind. Three very tall first-floor windows to the assembly rooms with similar detail but glazed with nine over nine-pane sashes. Shorter window over carriageway with similar detail, glazed with nine-pane fixed window.
INTERIOR: altered for bank use.
Listing NGR: SX7406266136
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392288
- 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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