8, FORE STREET
8, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1306662
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 8, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1306662
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 8, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, 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:
- 8, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Silverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 95572 02894
Details
SILVERTON FORE STREET (east side) SS 90 SE Silverton 7/250 No.8 - GV II* House, forming part of a row. John R L Thorp (reference below) has established that nos. 6 - 12 were built together as part of the same medieval scheme, and it is likely that the entire row (nos. 2 - 12) were built at the same time. C15 or early, with a later (or rebuilt) rear wing, possibly late C16. Plastered cob with stone footings. Thatched roof. The 3-room, cross-passage plan has been modified to fit into the constricted site of the sub-divided medieval tenement. Hall and service area front onto Fore Street and are divided by the passage; the inner room stands to the rear. 2-storeys. Front: 2-window range; the hall is heated by a front external lateral stack, with slated set-offs; horned sash windows to first and ground floor; front door, and garage doors, the latter leading into former service room. Interior: described in detail by J R L Thorp, 'Two Hall House in Late Medieval Terrace: 8-12 Fore Street, Silverton', Proc. Devon Archaeological Society, 40 (1982) 171-80. The features noted by him there are still extant, namely the passage plank and muntin screen, the ovolo moulded hall fireplace, the rear wing studded partition, and the 3 jointed crucks (one with arched brace), and heavily sooted roofs with wind braces. Medieval urban terrace developments such as this are exceptionally rare. (these are illustrated, op. cit, plates IXa and IXb).
Listing NGR: SS9557202894
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95435
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Proceedings of the Devon Archaeological Society in Proceedings of the Devon Archaeological Society, Vol. 40, (1982), 171-180
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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