Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 FORE STREET
1011-1/6/83 (South side (off))
Linhay and storage building to rear
of No.40

GV II

Linhay and storage building, associated with Bells Court, to
the rear of No.40 (qv), but in separate ownership from No.40
and linhay and storage building also in separate ownership.
Mid C19. Local grey limestone rubble; corrugated-iron roof,
gabled at ends. Plan: built at right-angles to the Fore Street
houses and fronting one of the narrow courts, paved with
pitched stones, running from Fore Street down to Dean Burn,
with access from a cartway to right of No.40. Four-bay lofted
linhay attached to lower end barn. EXTERIOR: linhay has stone
rubble piers, rectangular on plan. Loft and ground-floor bays
partly infilled with weatherboarding. Storage building,
barn-like in appearance, is single storey and adjoins linhay
at the south end with a probably secondary connecting block,
perhaps a cartshed. Storage building has a segmental-headed,
dressed stone arched doorway in the north end. INTERIOR:
linhay. Roof construction is C19. Stove pipe, a reused drain
pipe, inserted at north end. No access to storage building.
Both buildings may have been associated either with the wool
industry or, more probably, with the dairy usage of No.40,
perhaps to store horse, cart and milk containers. The linhay
is an unusual survival of the urban type of this building,
more commonly associated with cattle in rural Devon, but known
from documentation to have been a common feature of Devon wool
towns in the C18 and perhaps used for wool-combing.

Listing NGR: SX7396766060

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580288

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