The Valiant Soldier, Including Rear Wing
THE VALIANT SOLDIER, INCLUDING REAR WING, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292192
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Valiant Soldier, Including Rear Wing
- Statutory Address:
- THE VALIANT SOLDIER, INCLUDING REAR WING, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292192
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Valiant Soldier, Including Rear Wing
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE VALIANT SOLDIER, INCLUDING REAR WING, 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:
- THE VALIANT SOLDIER, INCLUDING REAR WING, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckfastleigh
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7409166141
Details
BUCKFASTLEIGH
SX7466 FORE STREET
1011-1/7/99 (North side)
The Valiant Soldier, including rear
wing
GV II
House, at one time public house, including rear right (NE)
wing (partly in separate ownership). Probably C17 in origin,
the main block altered in the late C19. Main block roughcast,
rear elevation cement-rendered and blocked out; natural slate
roof, gabled at ends with crested ridge tiles. Rear wing
partly slate-hung; roof partly corrugated asbestos; stacks
with stone rubble shafts.
Plan: the main block is 2 rooms wide with a cartway at the
left end giving access to a court. The rear right wing faces
onto the court and consists of a domestic block with a stable
block to the rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2:2-window front under
separate roofs, the left hand roof lower. Deep eaves. The
lower roofed block, to the left has a cartway to left, 2
ground-floor probably late C19 tripartite plate-glass horned
sashes, two 4-pane first-floor horned sashes. The right-hand
block has a recessed 6-panel door to the right with a
tripartite sash to right, two 4-pane sashes above, matching
the others. Pub name on panel on first floor.
Rear elevation is very irregular, suggesting a pre-C19 core.
The rear wing is under 2 separate roofs: the section nearest
the main block is domestic in function with a first-floor
12-pane boxed sash window. The (disused) rear section of the
wing has a cart entrance at the left end and 3 stable
entrances, 2 with segmental-headed brick arches and 4 small
unglazed windows, one with mullions; 2 first-floor loft
openings, one with mullions. The roof has been reduced in
height and a stack at the junction of the domestic part and
stable part of the wing appears originally to have served the
stable range. INTERIOR: not accessible but likely to be of
interest.
Historical note: the court has been variously called Bastows
Court, Hunt's Court or Hayman's Court. It is one of the larger
courts on the N side of Fore Street, formerly with cottages
facing into it but now with a building in light industrial use
in the centre. It was formerly partly in use as a butcher's
business. The court extends down to the River Mardle at the N
end, which is culverted to give easy access, perhaps for
cattle, from the fields on the other side.
Listing NGR: SX7409166141
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392290
- 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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