8, ST PETER STREET
8, ST PETER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384909
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 8, ST PETER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8, ST PETER STREET
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- Date:
- 2005-04-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/14090/28
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384909
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 8, ST PETER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, ST PETER 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:
- 8, ST PETER 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 95379 12601
Details
TIVERTON
SS9512 ST PETER STREET, Tiverton
848-1/6/279 (West side)
14/12/72 No.8
GV II
House. Early C18 with 1980s renovations and alterations. mass
wall construction, front elevation stuccoed and blocked out;
gabled asbestos slate roof; axial stack with brick shaft.
PLAN: one room wide, 2 rooms deep with axial stack serving
back to back fireplaces in front and rear rooms. Side passage
to right gives lobby entrance on right return and extends to
lead down to garden (and river) and former outhouse, now
incorporated as an extension.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic with a lower roofline than most
of the houses in St Peter Street. Vertical plank door to side
passage. 16-pane hornless sash to left. 2 early C18 first
floor 12-pane boxed sashes with thick glazing bars;
segmental-headed attic dormer glazed with 2-light casements, 6
panes per light.
INTERIOR: plain. Roof has 2 tiers of threaded purlins, apex
concealed at time of survey.
HISTORY: this is a nice example of a very modest,
neatly-planned C18 town house preserving two early windows. It
is earlier than many of the larger townhouses in Tiverton
which were rebuilt after a succession of fires.
Listing NGR: SS9537912601
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485368
- 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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