22 AND 23, FORE STREET
22 AND 23, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292294
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 22 AND 23, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 22 AND 23, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292294
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 22 AND 23, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 22 AND 23, 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:
- 22 AND 23, 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:
- SX7402066130
Details
BUCKFASTLEIGH
SX7466 FORE STREET
1011-1/7/73 (South side)
Nos.22 AND 23
GV II
House including shop. No.22 probably early C18 in origin,
remodelled in the late 1850s or early 1860s, contemporary with
No.23. Local stone rubble, stuccoed and blocked out; slate
roof, gabled at ends; stacks with rendered shafts with
platbands and attractive barley-sugar twisted pot. Plan:
double-depth plan, 2 rooms wide, passage entrance to left of
shopfront. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1:3-window front
with regular fenestration. Left hand block slightly broken
forward with a canted corner and gabled to the front with
curly pierced bargeboards. 2 ground- and one first-floor
4-pane late C19 horned sash windows. Doorway into
accommodation of right-hand block to left. Moulded doorcase;
6-panel door with overlight. Late C19 shop front to right with
pilasters with sunk panels with projecting cornice with
stylised foliage frieze. Plate-glass shop window with moulded
frame and rounded upper corners. Half-glazed panelled shop
door to left with deep overlight with rounded upper corners. 3
first-floor 4-pane hornless sash windows with moulded
architraves and sill blocks. INTERIOR: No.22 modernised inside
but the attic space contains an externally-blocked 2-light
timber mullioned window with panes and the truss of the
section gabled to the road re-uses a jointed cruck as a
principal rafter. The main roof, rear of the gable block has
the principal rafters mortised into tie beams.
Listing NGR: SX7402066130
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392270
- 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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