32-36, WOOLBROOK ROAD
32-36, WOOLBROOK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287212
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 32-36, WOOLBROOK ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 32-36, WOOLBROOK ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287212
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jun-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 32-36, WOOLBROOK ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 32-36, WOOLBROOK ROAD
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:
- 32-36, WOOLBROOK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sidmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 12450 89021
Details
690/6/159 WOOLBROOK ROAD 12-NOV-73 32-36 (Formerly listed as: WOOLBROOK ROAD PREMISES OCCUPIED BY TURNER BROTHERS) (Formerly listed as: WOOLBROOK ROAD HANDY STORE) (Formerly listed as: WOOLBROOK ROAD AUSTIS)
II Row of shops; originally a house. C18 with later extensions and alterations. Converted to cottages, probably in the C19, and latterly shops in the mid-C20. The ground-floor, left-hand bay to the rear of No 36 and the flat-roofed C20 extension to Nos 32-34 are not of special interest.
MATERIALS: Painted and plastered cob walls with a thatched roof that is half-hipped at its north western end.
PLAN: The building is of five bays, and divided into two shop premises. There is a single-storey outshut and a flat-roofed C20 extension to the rear (north-east).
EXTERIOR: Of one-and-a-half-storeys. The main south-western front faces onto the roadside. The ground-floor has three mid-C20, modernised shop fronts that are flanked by pilasters. Above are two- and three-light timber casements with leaded panes to the latter. There is a sash window set high in the north-west gable wall.
INTERIOR: There have been internal alterations, but some features of interest survive. Although the part of the rear wall was removed when the flat-roofed extension was added to the rear, the exposed ceiling beams survive. These spine beams are deeply chamfered and have stepped stops. The upper floor and roof carpentry were not inspected (March 2010).
HISTORY: Lower Woolbrook, which now forms part of Sidmouth, was previously a small hamlet, and Nos 32-36 Woolbrook Road is among its oldest building. It was probably constructed in the early C18. It is depicted on the tithe map of 1840 as a rectangular building and described as 'house and garden'. By the late C19 the building had been converted into cottages, but was subsequently converted into shops in 1936.
SOURCE: Tithe Map of Sidmouth (1840) http://www.eastdevonaonb.org.uk/Digitaltithemaps.htm Accessed on 22nd April 2010
REASON FOR DESIGNATION: Nos 32-36 Woolbrook Road is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: an early-C18 vernacular building constructed from local materials in accordance with local custom and tradition * Historic fabric: although shop fronts have been inserted, the original core of the building survives
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403033
- 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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