10 AND 12, FORE STREET
10 AND 12, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1325819
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 10 AND 12, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 10 AND 12, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1325819
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 10 AND 12, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 10 AND 12, 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:
- 10 AND 12, 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 95573 02901
Details
SILVERTON FORE STREET (east side), SS 90 SE Silverton 7/249 - No. 10 and 12 5.4.66 GV II* House forming part of a row. John R L Thorp (reference below) has established that nos. 6-12 Fore Street were built together as part of the same medieval scheme, and it is likely that the entire row (Nos.2-12) was built at the same time. C15 or earlier. Plastered cob with stone footings, under thatched roof. 3-room, through-passage plan, the lower end to the right of the passage. Both hall and service room are heated by inserted lateral external front stacks, one with 2 set offs, both with brick shafts. 2-storeys. Front: 3-window range; first floor, 3-light casement windows 2 of them with 8-leaded panes per light; no. 12 has a 12-light shop window under pentice slate roof; C19 3- light casement windows to ground floor. Interior: described in detail by J R L Thorpe, 'Two Hall Houses in a 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 remains of the 2 through-passage plank and muntin screens, evidence of jettying of the service end into the hall, the inserted hall fireplace with deep ogee moulding and pyramid stops, and the medieval smoke-blackened roof, jointed crucks, arched braced over hall, 1 with a boss carved with vine-leaf decoration, and wind braces. Medieval urban terrace developments such as this are extremely rare.
Listing NGR: SS9557302901
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95434
- 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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