Summary

Pair of houses. Mid-C19, that to the left altered in around 1900.

Description

Pair of semi-detached houses. Mid-C19, that to the left altered in around 1900.

MATERIALS: mainly brick, only rendered to the front. The slate roof has a gable-end to the left and is hipped to the right. There are end chimney stacks to left and right, and one axial chimney stack, all built with brick shafts.

PLAN: double-depth plan with a central rear staircase.

EXTERIOR: two storeys with a three-window range to both houses. That to the right has two-pane, unhorned sashes with margin panes to all five windows to the front. The left-hand house has bow windows of three panes with transoms, with the exception of the narrower central window of two panes to the first floor. The panes above the transoms to the first-floor windows have Art Nouveau-style glazing and coloured glass. Both have central porches with panelled doors and reveals, that to the right being corbelled. Semi-circular headed windows to the rear stairwells.

INTERIOR: understood to be altered.

The building was formerly listed as CULLOMPTON LOWER BULL RING, Cullompton ST 00 NW 10/129 Nos. 1 and 3.

History

Lower Bull Ring may be the site of the first medieval marketplace in Cullompton, although the area is also recorded as a ‘baiting place’.

The building does not appear on the Tithe map of 1839 but is shown on the Ordnance Survey (OS) map of 1887 as a semi-detached property with small outshuts to the rear. The houses were constructed at the same time and have always been two separate dwellings. They may have been built after a devastating fire in 1839 destroyed many of the cob and thatched cottages in the area.

Reasons for Listing

65 Fore Street and 2 Lower Bull Ring, Cullompton are listed for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* as a good example of a mid-C19 pair of houses;
* the houses retain their historic doorcases, and 65 Fore Street has attractive Art Nouveau-style early-C20 windows reflecting the fashions of the time.

Historic interest:

* potentially as part of the rebuilding of Cullompton after a great fire in 1839.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26399836

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments