Description

CREDITON

SS834000 DEAN STREET
672-1/6/27 (East side)
19/03/51 No.46
The Chantry including stable block
and garden walls.

GV II

House including garden walls and stable block. Probably late
C18; later alterations. Roughcast with a slate roof;end stacks
with brick shafts.
Plan: Double depth plan, 2 rooms wide with a central entrance.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a 2-span
hipped roof behind a parapet. Moulded cornice with brackets
below the parapet. Central timber porch with Tuscan columns
and an open pediment. Recessed 6-panel front door with
panelled reveals and a pretty fanlight. Left and right ground
floor 16-pane hornless sashes; similar first floor outer
windows with a 12-pane hornless sash in the centre. To the
left, a tall cob garden wall with slate coping includes a
doorway with a half-glazed door. The wall returns to the left
with tiled coping. To the right the end walls of 2 parallel
blocks with a tall wall between with a square-headed doorway.
The left hand block has a hipped roof and a blind recess to
the first floor. The wall is coped with slate. The right hand
block is a stable range and is gabled to the road with blind
windows on the ground and first floor. The inner return of the
stable has small-pane windows and a hayloft door.
Interior: Not inspected but likely to be of interest. Dean
Street escaped the 1743 fire of Crediton and the building
could have a pre-C18 core.
The Chantry is the only gentry town house in Dean Street,
which contains a mixture of vernacular and small C19 houses.
It is the most complete pre-fire street in Crediton.

Listing NGR: SS8364800033

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503423

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