40, FORE STREET
40, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292835
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 40, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 40, FORE STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05270/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292835
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 40, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40, 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:
- 40, 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:
- SX7394466105
Details
BUCKFASTLEIGH
SX7366 FORE STREET
1011-1/6/82 (South side)
06/01/83 No.40
(Formerly Listed as:
FORE STREET
(South side)
No.40
Buckfastleigh Dairy)
GV II
House with shop. c1775-1800 perhaps a remodelling of an
earlier building. Mass wall construction, stuccoed and blocked
out; asbestos slate roof, gabled at right end; stacks not seen
on survey; cast-iron rainwater goods. Plan: double-depth plan,
one room wide with a room over the cartway to the right.
Ground-floor plan altered for shop use. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys.
Asymmetrical 3-window front. Eaves cornice with modillion
frieze. Doorway to left, doorcase with panelled pilasters and
entablature with roundels. Glazed C20 door with overlight. C19
shop window to right with panelled pilasters with triglyph
brackets and cornice with modillion frieze. 3-light window
with moulded frame and mullions. Cartway to right curves round
to rear of building and includes one section of probably C18
chamfered crossbeams supporting wide floorboards. INTERIOR:
ground floor altered in C20. Features of interest may survive
elsewhere.
Listing NGR: SX7394466105
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392277
- 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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