Grasshoppers the Stores
GRASSHOPPERS, 16, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281154
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Grasshoppers the Stores
- Statutory Address:
- GRASSHOPPERS, 16, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281154
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Grasshoppers the Stores
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRASSHOPPERS, 16, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE STORES, 14, 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:
- GRASSHOPPERS, 16, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE STORES, 14, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Budleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 06631 84802
Details
EAST BUDLEIGH HIGH STREET (east side) Cast SY 0684 Budleigh 8/98 No. 14, The Stores and No. 16, - Grasshoppers GV II 2 shops with accommodation above and a house. C18 refurbished in C19. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble or brick stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; slate roof. Long building facing west onto High Street. No.14, The Stores, is on the right and comprises a shop with a room over and at the right (southern) end a 2-room plan house with central staircase plan. The left room has a rear lateral stack and the right room has an end stack. No. 16 Grasshoppers, on the left (northern) end, had a 2-room plan but now they have been knocked together on the ground floor to form a tea shop. The larger of the 2 room-spaces to the right has a rear lateral stack. Here the stairs rise against the wall to rear of the left room. 2 storeys throughout. Grasshoppers has a nearly symmetrical 2-window front of C19 and C20 replacement casement windows with glazing bars and with a central part-glazed C20 door. The house at the right end, part of The Stores, has a balanced but not symmetrical 2- window front of C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars and a central C19 6-panel door (the top 2 now glazed). The Stores-shop has a projecting bay window; late C19- early C20 entablature but the glazing replaced without glazing bars. Part-glazed door in the centre. Above this is a small 16-pane sash window with a vallance above. Small extra casement to right of it. Interiors of both houses shows mostly C19 joinery detail and other features. However the shop in The Stores and the room to right both nave axial beams with broad neat soffit chamfers without stops. These must be C18 if not late C17. The roof here might be C18 too. It comprises A-frame truss with iron-spiked lap-jointed collars and x-apexes. The Stores and Grasshoppers make up part of a group of attractive and varied buildings which line High Street as it rises towards the Church of All Saints (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SY0663484809
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86299
- 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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