Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 CHAPEL STREET
1011-1/6/54 (South side)
06/01/83 Nos.38 AND 39

GV II

Golden Lion inn, converted to flats. c1820. Stuccoed and
blocked out; asbestos slate roof, gabled at right end,
half-hipped at left end; rear left stack with rendered shaft.
Plan: largely double-depth rectangular plan, original internal
layout obscured by conversion. The right end, No.38, may be
earlier in origin with windows set lower in the front wall.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window front with
modillion eaves cornice. Recessed half-glazed C19 timber door
with flush panels to right; 2nd half-glazed door to left of
centre. Ground-floor windows 3 wide late C19 tripartite horned
sashes, 4-pane in the centre flanked by 2-pane. 5 first-floor
windows: four 16-pane early C19 hornless sashes, one a horned
replacement. 2nd-floor windows 8 over 4-pane timber sashes,
mostly C20 replacements. INTERIOR: No.39 re-partitioned. Roof
has pegged A-frame trusses with halved apexes and considerable
C20 strengthening. No.38 is single depth. Interior plain.

Listing NGR: SX7389266116

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580813

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings