Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 FORE STREET
1011-1/6/86 (North side)
06/01/83 Nos.49 AND 51
(Formerly Listed as:
FORE STREET
(South side)
Nos.49, 50 AND 51)

GV II

2 houses, one with shop, No.50 formerly a bakery said to have
been associated with a flour mill in the rear court. c1790s
with evidence of earlier building phase to rear. Local grey
limestone rubble; slate roof gabled at ends; stacks with
cement-rendered shaft with platbands; cast-iron gutter.
Plan: main block one room deep, 2 rooms wide with a central
through-passage and deep rear plot flanked with walls. Rear of
No.49 has a rendered rear wing at right-angles. Rear of No.51
has a 2-storey wing of late C17 or early C18 date.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front with regular
fenestration. Modillion eaves cornice. Ground floor has
central entrance to passage with recessed overlight; passage
paved with local limestone. To the left, No.49 has a C20
replaced timber door, one 16-pane C20 timber sash window
alongside to the right and two 4-pane horned sashes. Shop
front to right has left and right pilasters and an entablature
with a cornice with a moulded frieze. 3-light late C19 or
early C20 shop window with moulded frame and mullions.
Entrance to shop through half-glazed door in passage. 4 first-
and 4 second-floor windows, all 12-pane late C18 or early C19
sashes.
INTERIOR: right-hand block has a massive bread oven on
right-hand wall of rear room. The oven, probably mid C19, is
lined with neatly-laid stone and has been truncated at the
front. The same room has a chamfered, step-stopped axial beam.
An interesting building with traces of earlier origins. The
walling and ruins in the rear court (not included) are
associated with the former industrial use of this medieval
plot. The mill at the end of the plot has been demolished.

Listing NGR: SX7398166142

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512572

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