Priory Gate House
PRIORY GATE HOUSE, 65, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1235702
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Gate House
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY GATE HOUSE, 65, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1235702
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Gate House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY GATE HOUSE, 65, 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:
- PRIORY GATE HOUSE, 65, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Totnes
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 80311 60427
Details
1. 5180 FORE STREET (North Side) ------------ No 65 (Priory Gate House) SX 8060 SW 2/41A 7.1.52.
II* GV
2. Later C16 merchants house refaced earlier C19. On site of Priory gatehouse (plaque). Incorporates masonry party walls of former C16 building with moulded corbel of former 1st floor jetty. 3 storeys, 2 windows. Hipped Welsh slate roof with coved eaves cornice. Timber-framed slate-hung front. Flush-framed sash windows with exposed boxing and glazing bars. Modern shopfront. Rear facade retains original 7-light mullioned window to ground floor with ovolo mouldings, and doorway with ovolo mouldings. Back ground floor room (former parlour) with Elizabethan plaster ceiling with decorated rib work and moulded ceiling beams; earlier C17 panelling. Mid C18 open staircase with closed string, turned balusters and square newels. Part of 1st floor gallery at rear survives; rebuilt as closet with 2-light mullioned window with ovolo mouldings and stay bars; muntin and plank partition and internal half-timbering show traces of painted decoration. 1st floor back room (former hall) with early C17 chimney piece with bolection moulding. Grade II* for interior.
Listing NGR: SX8031160427
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426502
- 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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