Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 CHAPEL STREET
1011-1/6/50 (South side)
Nos.30 AND 31

GV II

Pair of houses, c1775-1825 in origin, No.30 said to have been
very rebuilt in the 1980s. Local grey limestone rubble;
asbestos slate roof, gabled at ends; stack with rendered shaft
and four C19 tall cream-coloured chimney pots. Plan:
double-depth range, each house one room wide, No.30 with an
unheated rear wing. Axial stack to party wall. No.30 is built
against No.29 (qv), with the wall-plate of the tenter loft
projecting slightly into the roofspace. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys.
Asymmetrical 3-window front with regular fenestration, mostly
of matching late C19 four-pane horned sashes. No.31, to the
left, has a depressed segmental-headed doorway to the left
with a C20 timber panelled door and a blind fanlight with
spoke glazing bars. Ground and first-floor windows alongside
to right. No.30 has a C20 internal porch to the right with a
C20 timber door and 4-pane fixed porch window alongside.
2-light timber casement with glazing bars above porch. 2
ground-floor and one first-floor window to left. INTERIOR:
No.30 inspected. Plain interior with C20 joinery, one c1860s
cast-iron grate and chimney-piece upstairs. Pegged collar
rafter roof with halved collars, X-apex and possibly secondary
ridge slightly to one side; trenched purlins. Features of
interest may survive in No.30. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SX7381666125

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580440

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas