Description

CREDITON

SS826000 HIGH STREET
672-1/5/101 (South side)
Nos.113 & 114
The Exchange Public House

GV II

Includes: No.12 SEARLE STREET.
Public House and shop. Circa 1870s; internal alterations of
1989 to pub. Flemish bond brick with elaborate brick detail;
slate roof; stacks with corbelled shafts with brick banding.
Provincial eclectic style. Plan: Rectangular main block with
corner entrance to bar and a cartway to the High Street; rear
wing fronting Searle Street includes an entrance.Shop to the
right of the cartway. Exterior: 3 storeys to the main block; 2
storeys to the rear wing. The main block has one canted bay
across the corner with a hipped roof plus 3 bays to the High
Street. Searle Street elevation 2:3 bays - the 2 bays to the
rear wing. The main block has moulded brick corbels under the
eaves and a frieze of serrated moulded brickwork below.
Moulded brick strings at first and second floor level with a
dentil frieze. Bar doorway in the canted bay with a pair of
round-headed windows in square embrasures to each return bay.
Moulded cornice on big consoles across all 3 bays and
extending across the High Street frontage. Recessed bar door
with triple-chamfered brick jambs and an outer door in a
narrow square-headed doorway with a plain fanlight. The first
and second floor windows in the canted corner bay are
round-headed 2-pane sashes: the first floor with a brick
architrave and nowy-headed arch over; the second floor window
with brick pilasters and a keystone. The High Street elevation
has a shop front in the right hand bay, with a C20 plate glass
window but preserving the big brackets and cornice of the
original build. The roll down shop blind and its fittings may
also be original. The centre bay above the cartway is
recessed. Left and right first floor canted bay windows with a
dentil frieze and cornice, glazed with 4-pane sashes. Matching
V-plan bay window in the centre. 3 4-pane second floor sashes,
the outer windows with basket arches with keyblocks, the
centre window similar but with brick pilasters and
triple-chamfered jambs. The Searle Street elevation is in a
matching style but more regular. 6 ground floor 4-pane sashes
with basket arches above with keystones, doorway in first bay
from the left. 5 first floor canted bays matching those on the
front, the 4 left hand windows technically oriels on pairs of
deep, shaped brackets. 5 first floor 4-pane sashes to the main
block. Interior: Public house only inspected. Ground floor
gutted in 1989. The pub was named the Oatsheaf until 1989. It
is a good example of energetic provincial pub architecture of
the date. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SS8306000354

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503949

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)