Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 FORE STREET 1011-1/6/75 (South side) 06/01/83 Nos.25 AND 26 including rear stable block to 25 and niche with tap to 26 (Formerly Listed as: FORE STREET (South side) Nos.25 AND 26)

GV II

House, divided into 2, including storage building (perhaps former stable) at right-angles to rear of No.25. In church ownership. c1790-1810, perhaps a recasting of an earlier building, extensive late C20 alterations. Stone rubble, stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof, gabled at ends; stacks with rendered shafts. Storage or stable building local grey limestone rubble with a corrugated asbestos roof. Plan: somewhat altered in C20, originally 2 rooms wide and 2 rooms deep with a through-passage to the rear courtyard (Fowlers Court). Rear of passage (No.25) blocked off. No.25 is heated from left end stacks, the rear stack very massive with a bread oven shared with the Post Office adjoining at left (qv). Cartway entrance to the yard to right of No.26 with at least one blocked doorway from the cartway into No.26. The storage building bounds the left side of the yard behind the houses, which is associated with a court of domestic and industrial buildings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical but regular 3-window front with adjacent front doors in the centre. Eaves board. Moulded timber cornice with fascia with scalloped decoration above ground floor bow windows extends to left and right as a deep platband. Matching 6-panel timber front doors (C20 replicas of former doors but with upper panels glazed), the left one (No.25) slightly wider have doorcases with pilasters with sunk panels and overlights, No.26 is blind. Attractive late C18 or early C19 16-pane bow windows (in poor condition at time of survey (1992)) to the ground floor with external shutters. 2 outer first-floor windows are late C18 or early C19 16-pane sashes, similar 12-pane sash in centre. No.25 has a C20 attic dormer with casement window - both houses said formerly to have had dormers with diamond leaded panes. Round-headed niche with tap on right return of No.26 is part of Buckfastleigh's early piped water system. To rear the yard, retaining some pitched stone paving, is bounded by the stub of a masonry wall to the right and long storage shed with monopitch roof, which has 4 doorways, 2 with plank doors, and 2 windows. INTERIOR: No.25 modernised but preserving some 4-panel doors. Stair replaced. This house has a particularly attractive frontage and preserves its rear court, important to the urban texture of Buckfastleigh. Historical note: C19 photographs show part of the rear elevation with the rear porch to the cross passage. The tap in the niche is a survival from the 1892 piped water system to Buckfastleigh which followed an outbreak of typhoid.

Listing NGR: SX7400166124

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