2, FORE STREET
2, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1325820
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 2, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1325820
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 2, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, 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:
- 2, 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 95567 02871
Details
SILVERTON FORE STREET (east side) SS 90 SE Silverton 7/253 - No. 2 5.4.66 GV II*
House forming part of a row that is possibly all of 1 late medieval build which includes Nos. 2 - 12. C15 or earlier. Plastered cob with stone footings. Thatched roof, half-hipped to right-hand end. Probably a variant of the 3-room, cross-passage plan, adapted to fit into sub-divided medieval tenement site, with hall and service room fronting Fore Street, with lateral external front stack heating hall, and inner room to rear (now rebuilt as No. , School Road, q.v.). 2-storeys. Front: 3-window range. One 2, and one 3-light casement window to first floor (with a C20 2-light window added); two 3-light casement windows to ground floor; recessed doorway (with panelled door) set immediately to the left of the stack with has a pair of set offs and a brick shaft; left hand axial stack, C19. Interior not inspected. This is a most interesting example of a late-medieval urban plan type which is discussed by J R L Thorp, "Two Hall Houses in a Late Medieval Terrace: 8-12 Fore Street, Silverton", Proc. Devon Archaeological Societ 40 (1982), 171-80.
Listing NGR: SS9556702871
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95438
- 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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