68, FORE STREET
68, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264834
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 68, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 68, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264834
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 68, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 68, 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:
- 68, 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 80310 60409
Details
1. 5180 FORE STREET (South Side) ------------ No 68 SX 8060 SW 2/35A 7.1.52.
II* GV
2. Possibly a single storey medieval hall, heightened in the C17 and refronted mid C18. (M Laithwaite). The building retains its detached back block (former kitchen now No 68A) and gallery, both much altered, of "deux corps de batiments" type. 2 storeys and attics 1st floor with 2 paired windows. Welsh slate roof with bitumen asphalt sheets and gabled front. Masonry party walls of Devonian limestone rubble with traces of moulded corbel of former C17 jetty to 1st floor at west end. Party wall on west side much patched with evidence for blocked windows with timber lintols; rear block with 2 light wooden mullioned window with chamfered mouldings and stay bars. Plastered, timber-framed front. Architraved sash windows with exposed boxing and glazing bars to attic and 1st floor. Modern shopfront, but retains heavy boxed-out cornice of former C18 shop. Chamfered ground floor ceiling beams. Grade II* for group value.
Listing NGR: SX8031060409
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426810
- 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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