48, FORE STREET
48, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264828
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 48, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 48, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264828
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 48, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 48, 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:
- 48, 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 80380 60391
Details
1. 5180 FORE STREET (South Side) ------------ No 48 SX 8060 SW 2/29 7.1.52.
II* GV
2. Later C16 or early C17 merchant's house of "deux corps de batiments" type. Gallery and back block rebuilt circa 1914. 3 storeys and attic. 2 windows to end floor. Welsh slate roof with old stack heightened in red brick. Gabled front with panelled bargeboards. Masonry party walls of Devonian limestone with moulded granite corbels of former jetties. Timber framed front renewed later C19 with jettied 1st and 2nd floors. Slate-hung gable. Rendered 1st and 2nd floors. Stucco ground floor with late C19 tiled shop front. Attic and 2nd floor with architraved sash windows with glazing bars; 1st floor with splayed oriel window with sashes and cornice. 2nd floor jetty retains original moulded bressumer. Shop window with large panes. Architraved house doorway with dentil cornice and panelled door approached by steps. Good Elizabethan plaster ceilings to 2nd floor room with rib patterns and enriched foliated beams (formerly part of fore-chamber of originalouse). Fine Jacobean plaster ceiling with strapwork decoration and enriched beams to 1st floor front room (former fore-hall of original house). Grade II* for interior and group value. For house type see list preamble.
Listing NGR: SX8038060391
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426645
- 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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