6, FORE STREET
6, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329369
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 6, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 6, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329369
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 6, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, 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:
- 6, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Seaton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 24490 90021
Details
FORE STREET 1. 5176
SY29SW 1/19 No 6
GV II
2. Shop premises with accommodation above. Early C19 with later C19 alterations and rear additions. Stuccoed stone rubble. Slate roof with gabled ends abutting adjoining buildings.
The plan is 2 rooms wide separated by an entrance passage and 3 rooms deep. The original plan probably 2 rooms with an off centre passage. The 2 rooms are now shop and the larger left hand room has an open screen at the back separating it from the slightly later rear addition. Later in the C19 another rear extension was built making the plan a total of 3 rooms deep.
Two storeys. Symmetrical 3 window range. The second storey has three 9-pane sashes with keyblock in slightly cambered heads. First floor window but larger 12-pane sashes, the centre window replaced in later C19 by a wooden canted bay window; the other windows are the original sashes complete with glazing bar. Ground floor to right of centre the original round-headed doorway with semi-circular fanlight, panelled reveals, thin pilasters and ornate cast-iron brackets supporting a flat moulded canopy with a panelled soffit, and with a 6-panel door. 2 late C19 shop fronts, double fronted to left; single fronted to right; each with shallow bay windows with thin corner shafts with moulded bases and capitals supporting moulded entablatures which are obscured by later blinds.
Interior: at the rear of the left hand shop a stone screen of 2 Tuscan columns and 2 half columns, supporting elliptical arches, the centre bay is wider. Gothic fanlight in entrance passage; original panelled doors; plain stairs with stuck balusters; first floor right front room has a wooden chimneypiece with attached columns and a cast-iron grate.
Listing NGR: SY2449090021
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352078
- 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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