135-139, FORE STREET
135-139, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380746
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- 135-139, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 135-139, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380746
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Feb-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 135-139, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 135-139, 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:
- 135-139, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Exeter (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 91713 92335
Details
SX 9192 SE FORE STREET 871/5/10053 (Northwest side) 23-JUN-00 135-139 (Formerly listed as: FORE STREET 135-138)
II
Terrace of 4, all with shops at ground floor level and accommodation above. Nos 136 & 137 is single late C17/early C18 house, reglazed in the C19. Nos 138 & 139 may also have early cores but may be early C19 with facades matching Nos 136 & 137. C20 shopfronts. Mass wall construction, stuccoed and blocked out. Slate roof to 136 and 137; roofs not visible at 138 and 139. Concealed rainwater goods.
Plan: the row steps down Fore Street Hill. Nos 136 & 137, the house at the lower end of the row, has a deep rectangular plan, altered at ground floor level for shop use but possibly with evidence of the early plan on the upper floors. Nos 138 and 139 each also have a deep rectangular plan with ground floor alterations for shop use. Exterior: Nos 136 and 137 are 3 storeys; Nos 138 and 139, uphill, are 4 storeys. Asymmetrical but regular 4:2:2-window front. Nos 136 and 137, the single historic house, is symmetrical above ground floor level and preserves a hipped slate roof behind the parapet which has a moulded cornice with a modillion frieze. Platbands at first and second floor level; sash windows glazed with probably early C19 recessed 12-pane hornless sashes in earlier embrasures. Ground floor has two C20 shop fronts with recessed entrance between. Nos 138 and 139 each have 2-window fronts and are 4 storeys high with similar parapets and platbands; C20 shop fronts to ground floor. 12-pane horned sashes at first and second floors. Each building has a central single 3/6 pane horned sash at third floor level. INTERIORS: No.136 retains a late C17 moulded plaster cornice at ground floor level. Interiors otherwise not inspected but Nos 135 & 137 are likely to include features of interest including original roof construction.
Listing NGR: SX9171392335
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481070
- 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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