Description

1. 5180 FORE STREET (South Side) ------------ No 50 SX 8060 SW 2/30 7.1.52.

II* GV

2. Later C16 or early C17 merchantts house of "deux corps de batiments" type. Brick block rebuilt later C19. Gallery no longer exists. Originally built as one of a pair with No 48 sharing common party wall. 3 storeys and dormer. 2 windows to 2nd floor. Roof and front renewed later C19. Hipped Welsh slate roof with modern dormer and boxed out eaves. Plastered front with jettied 1st and 2nd floors. Masonry party walls of Devonian limestone with moulded granite corbels of former jetties. Architraved 2nd floor sash windows; 1st floor with splayed bow oriel window with dentil cornice. Modern shopfront. Architraved house doorway with panelled door leading to passage with original muntin and plank partition. Good Elizabethan plaster ceiling to front 1st floor room with rib patterns (formerly fore hall of original house). The original ceiling of part of the hall (lst floor back room) is preserved behind a false ceiling; corbelled lintol of original hall fireplace. 2nd floor front room (former fore-chamber) with decorated Elizabethan plaster ceiling. Grade II* for interior and group value.

Listing NGR: SX8037260393

External Links

• Wikidata Q17534000

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