32, HIGH STREET
32, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264635
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 32, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 32, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264635
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 32, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 32, 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:
- 32, 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 80160 60434
Details
1. 5180 HIGH STREET (South Side) No 32 SX 8060 SW 1/55A 7.1.52.
II* GV
2. Late C18 front to merchant's house of circa 1560, built by Richard Brooking, Mayor in 1577. Shown since circa 1500 as the Mayor's house. "Une maison a deux corps de batiments" type with ruins of former kitchen block at rear. 3 storeys. 2 paired windows to 1st floor. Hipped Welsh slate roof. Plaster front. Dentil eaves cornice. Architraved sash windows with glazing bars; 1 window to 2nd floor. Interesting interior which retains in ground floor rear room C14 or C15, granite open fireplace of former hall of medieval building; corbelled hood carried on simplified pilasters; hood with carved central star and shield motif; mantle carried round to form sconce brackets (of similar fireplace at Nos 43/45 High Street). Same room has plaster frieze with foliated decoration, and plaster ceiling of circa 1560 with ribwork enriched with rosette and fleur-de-lis motifs; fine oak panelling dated 1577 moved from upstairs. 1st floor front room with cornice and fret decoration in frieze panels. Late C17 open staircase, inserted into end of Elizabethan ground floor rear room (former parlour), with closed string, turned balusters and square newels surmounted by ball finials. 1st floor front room (former fore-hall) with plaster ceiling enriched with ribwork, rosettes and pendants; plaster frieze with foliated decoration. Grade II* for internal features. (M. Laithwaite).
Listing NGR: SX8016060434
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427320
- 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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