Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7466 FORE STREET
1011-1/7/94 (North side)
06/01/83 No.71
including walls of rear plot
(Formerly Listed as:
FORE STREET
(North side)
No.71)

GV II

House with shop on the ground floor, at one time a bakery, now
used as a restaurant. Probably C17 in origin and single phase
with No.71A (qv), with later alterations. Stuccoed and blocked
out; steeply-pitched asbestos slate roof, gabled at ends;
stacks with stone rubble shafts. Plan: 3 rooms deep, 1 room
wide with an axial staircase. Centre room was former bakery,
rear room was parlour. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical
one-window front. Late C19 or early C20 shop front with
pilasters with scratch mouldings and capitals, moulded cornice
on moulded consoles and 3-light plate-glass shop window with
moulded frame and mullions, the right-hand light with a
rounded corner and recessed half-glazed shop door to right.
Late C18 or early C19 16-pane first-floor sash window. Rear
elevation has modern lean-to. Rubble walls of rear plot
survive as far as River Mardle. INTERIOR: centre room has
exposed joists and timber-framed partition to rear room. Large
late C19 cast-iron bread oven on right end wall, stamped
Sandford of Totnes. Rear room has chamfered, stopped crossbeam
and fireplace lintel with scratched date of 1633. Small
2-light timber mullioned window with leaded panes lights room
from left. Roof timbers not inspected but probably of
interest.

Listing NGR: SX7406066154

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512619

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas