Description

CHULMLEIGH FORE STREET (east side),
SS 6814 - 6914
Chulmleigh
7/70 Nos. 1-3 Kings Arms and Kings Arm
20.2.67 Cottage
GV II
Former coaching inn, divided in late C20 into 4 tenements. C17 fabric much
remodelled in C19 and again in late C20. Painted roughcast rendered stone rubble and
cob. Slate roof to left. Bitumenized slate roof at right end, with gable ends.
Rendered stack to left end and axial rendered stack.
Plan: Nos. 1-3 to left form early core of a probable C17 3 room and cross-passage
plan, entirely remodelled in late C18 or early C19 when rear wall appears to have
been built out to form 1 1/2 room deep plan with staircase to rear of left-hand room and
former principal stairs in passage replaced in late C20. Kings Arms Cottage at right
end appears to be of late C18 date, remodelled in C19 and comprises single room wide,
1½ room deep plan with winder staircase to rear right-hand corner of rear room, the
upper storey carried over wide carriageway through to rear courtyard at right end.
Exterior: 2 storeys. 9 window range. Nos. 1-3 has 6 window range all 16 paned
horned sashes. Ground floor has principal doorway with plain pilasters, moulded
enablature supported by decorative console brackets and late C19 9-panelled door with
overlight. Bow windows to each side, that to right has 12 paned sash with 4 paned
sliding sidelight sashes, that to left is C20 replacement. C19 style doorcase at
left end with 20 paned hornless sash to right. Kings Arms Cottage to right has 16
paned sash above 4 paned sash to left and 12 paned sash with flush sash box above
double plank doors to carriage entrance to right of 12 paned sash above recessed 6
panelled door.
Interior: Nos. 1-3 heavily altered in C20, but principal room at left end retains
partly concealed roll-moulded granite surround to fireplace and late C18 or early C19
straight-run staircase with swept up moulded handrail and slender turned balusters.
Kings Arms Cottage has C19 joinery principally intact. C19 king post roof structure.

Listing NGR: SS6876614195

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26400555

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)