39 AND 41, HIGH STREET, 39 AND 41, BUTTERWALK
39 AND 41, BUTTERWALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1236133
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 39 AND 41, HIGH STREET, 39 AND 41, BUTTERWALK
- Statutory Address:
- 39 AND 41, BUTTERWALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1236133
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Mar-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 39 AND 41, HIGH STREET, 39 AND 41, BUTTERWALK
- Statutory Address 1:
- 39 AND 41, BUTTERWALK
- Statutory Address 2:
- 39 AND 41, 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:
- 39 AND 41, BUTTERWALK
- Statutory Address:
- 39 AND 41, HIGH 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 80122 60461
Details
1. 5180 HIGH STREET (Butterwalk) Nos 39 and 41 SX 8060 SW 1/67 7.1.52.
II* GV
2. 2 separate houses with long history of single ownership. No 38, circa 1624, built by John Wise, merchant. No 41 may have been rebuilt in mid C18. No 39 is "deux corps de batiments" type and retains the (built over) small court and separate kitchen block. 3 storeys. Both houses refronted earlier-mid C19 to form a pair with 3 windows to 1st floor. Hipped Welsh slate roofs with red brick stacks. Masonry party walls; that on east side of No 39 of Devonian limestone rubble with arched entrance over Butterwalk loggia. Slate-hung, timber-framed front to 1st and 2nd floors. Eaves cornice. No 39, 3 light sash windows; No 41 2nd floor with architraved, paired sash windows with glazing bars; 3 light 1st floor windows to outer bays. Ground floor loggia over pavement carved on Tuscan columns bearing entablature. Passage entrances with rectangular fanlights and panelled doors. No 39 with interesting interior features : former staircase bay with originally an open yard on west side of house and approached by side passage (similar to No 70 Fore Street (qv). The staircase bay was formerly timber-framed but the partitions were removed in the earlier-mid C19 and the yard incorporated into the ground floor shop area. At 1st floor level the yard area still retains early C19 sash windows with margin lights. Good decorated plaster ceilings with rib-work, rosettes, pendants moulded cornices and timber beam enrichments to ground floor (former staircase bay) and 1st floor rooms (former hall and fore-hall). The front 1st floor room with very fine plaster ceiling with monogram "I.D." and "W.D." of William Dowse. Site of former gallery with arched 1st floor doorway to kitchen block. Kitchen with open fireplaces and framed partitions. No 41 with mid C18 open staircase with closed string, turned balusters, square newel and moulded handrail. Grade II* for interior (M Laithwaite).
Listing NGR: SX8012260461
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427047
- 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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