5, FORE STREET
5, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384816
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 5, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 5, FORE STREET
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- Date:
- 2004-07-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/12844/29
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384816
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 5, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, 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:
- 5, 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:
- Tiverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 95455 12484
Details
TIVERTON
SS9512 FORE STREET, Tiverton
848-1/6/175 (South side)
12/02/52 No.5
GV II
House, formerly shop, now cafe. c1820 or earlier. Smooth
plastered mass wall construction; roof at front concealed
behind parapet but judging from the rear the house is roofed
end on to the road - roof to rear slated and hipped to end. 2
right stacks with brick shaft with band; left end stack
(towards rear) with an old brick shaft and bands. 2 rooms
deep, one room wide.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Symmetrical 2-bay front with rusticated
pilasters, plain coped parapet ramps down to centre. Ground
floor has remnants of a c1830s shop front in the form of 2
fluted Greek Doric columns at either end, now supporting a
large, plain projecting fascia. In the centre of the shop
front a probably early C20 bay window of 3 lights is
high-transomed with small panes above the transom.
Doorways to left and right. The left-hand doorway is
round-headed with a glazed door with a low panel; the
right-hand doorway is similar with a glazed door with a low
panel but with a plain fanlight. The first floor has probably
late C19 4-pane sashes with segmental heads. The second-floor
windows are c1830s 12-pane sashes.
The rear elevation is less altered. It is cement rendered with
a hipped roof. C20 half-glazed rear door to left with glazed
side panel and 3-pane overlight. The 2 windows of the
left-hand bay are 12-pane early C19 sashes, the first-floor
window altered to one pane in the top light. The 3 windows in
the right-hand bay are early C19 16-pane sashes the
ground-floor window altered with one pane only in the top
light.
INTERIOR: partially inspected. Ground floor altered for
commercial use. On the ground floor; stair cell between front
and rear rooms with stair rising axially.
Listing NGR: SS9545512484
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485275
- 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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