54, FORE STREET
54, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264832
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 54, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 54, FORE STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/15693/25
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264832
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 54, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 54, 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:
- 54, 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 80361 60396
Details
1. 5180 FORE STREET (South Side) ------------ No 54 SX 8060 SW 2/32 7.1.52.
11* GV
2. Circa 1607 merchants house; a good example of the "deux corps de batiments" type. 2½ storeys. 2 paired windows. Welsh slate roof with gabled front. Masonry party walls of Devonian limestone rubble, ground floor at west end with granite corbel. Timber framed front renewed early C19 but retaining carved wooden bressumers and brackets of jettied 2nd floor and attics. Carved gable half-timbering with date 1607. Plaster front. Architraved paired sash windows to 2nd floor with glazing bars; splayed, oriel window to 1st floor with paired sashes and side lights with glazing bars. Modern recent shop front with bow window. Original fireplaces in ground floor rear room (former parlour) and early C18 staircase. 2 storey back block with hipped roof, coved cornice and 3 light window; original fireplace in ground floor room (former kitchen) and newel staircase. Cellar with mullioned window.
Listing NGR: SX8036160396
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426805
- 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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