Description

CHACEWATER FORE STREET (north side) Chacewater
SW 74 SE
5/70 No 27 and including No 1 Station
Road
30.5.67
GV II
Houses with shopfronts on street corner. 1832. Elvan and killas rubble with dressed
quoins and jambstone and shallow brick arches with projecting keystones. Asbestos
slate and slurried scantle slate roof with wide eaves, street corner hip and brick
chimneys over gable ends to west and north and brick axial chimney over party wall.
L-shape group comprising originally (-room shop, 1-room house, street corner shop, 1-
room house and narrow rooms to rear. 2 storeys. 5-window front to Fore Street
(south) and 4-window return front to Station Road (east). South front has house left
originally shop with wide ground floor C20 window replacing shop window. Entrance to
right with C20 door and overlight. 2 C20 windows over. Second house has C20 window,
left, and blocked entrance, right, and original 12-pane hornless sashes over.
Original shop window to right complete with 15-panes. Flanking wooden pilasters on
plinths with consoles over to original fascia with cornice which continues round to
east front. Original 12-pane hornless sash centrally over shop window. East front
has similar shop window with doorway to left near corner. Double top-glazed doors
with overlight. Doorway to right of shop now with 4-pane horned sash. Further
doorway almost adjoining with panelled door and overlight. Ground floor right-hand
window and 4 first floor windows are original hornless 12-pane sashes. Cast-iron
ogee gutters with cast iron down pipes.
Interior partially inspected to view original open string winder stair with curved
mahogany handrail and running dog detail.
Chacewater is notable for the survival of many of its c19 shopfronts. This is an
interesting example.

Listing NGR: SW7505144429

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26429622

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Recommended Books

• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy