24, FORE STREET
24, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292834
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 24, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 24, FORE STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-09-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/05270/35
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292834
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 24, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 24, 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:
- 24, 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:
- SX 74014 66121
Details
BUCKFASTLEIGH
SX7466 FORE STREET 1011-1/7/74 (South side) No.24
GV II
Shop with accommodation over, in use as post office. c1880s, probably a remodelling of an earlier building. Mass wall construction, stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof gabled at ends; right end stack; cast-iron gutter. Plan: double-depth plan, one room wide with a passage entrance to the accommodation to left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front with regular fenestration. Modillion eaves cornice. Continuous fascia across front with fine painted consoles with carved heads. Recessed panelled door to passage to left, upper panels fielded, deep overlight. Probably 1880s shop front to right has plate-glass shop windows canted in towards half-glazed panelled shop door with deep overlight. Shop window has cast-iron columns with moulded bases and capitals. INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain features of interest. Included for group value and for shop front.
Listing NGR: SX7401466121
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392271
- 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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