Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 CHAPEL STREET
1011-1/6/55 (South side)
No.40

GV II

Small house, attached to the former Golden Lion Inn (qv Nos 38
& 39). Disused at time of survey (1992). Probably originally a
staff cottage, incorporating a cartway entrance which leads to
the rear of the inn and to other houses. c1840, perhaps with
an earlier core (one of only 2 houses in Fore Street which are
end on to the road). Rendered; left return wall, facing
cartway, painted brick. Turnerised slate roof, gabled at ends
where it adjoins other buildings; rear centre stack with
rendered brick shaft. Plan: double-depth plan, one room wide.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front, roof gabled
to the front with pierced wavey bargeboards and a pendant.
Recessed, half-glazed, panelled timber front door to right,
segmental-headed corbelled cartway to left. One ground- and 2
first-floor 12-pane horned sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SX7390466116

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504957

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)