Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 CHAPEL STREET 1011-1/6/53 (South side) 06/01/83 Nos.34 AND 35 and attached outbuildings to rear

GV II

Shown as 34, 35 & 36 (the latter the rear wing) on OS map. Pair of houses, one with some history of partial industrial use. No.34 in course of renovation at time of survey (1992). c1830s. Colourwashed, stuccoed and blocked out, left end slate-hung. Slate roof, gabled at right end, half-hipped at left end; stacks with rendered shafts. Outbuildings to rear: formerly used as builder's yard, offices and store-rooms. c1880s. Partly local grey limestone rubble with some brick, partly timber-framed and weatherboarded. Turnerised pegslate roof; stack with brick shaft. Plan: double-depth rectangular plan to main blocks with carriageway entrance to left. Outbuildings: U-plan range, the west range attached to rear wing of No.34, with a way through the south range to N end of the court. Parallel east and west ranges create a narrow walkway between. Cartway through front of house gave access from Fore Street. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front. Adjacent, recessed front doors to left of centre, No.34 original with a door of 6 fielded panels and deep overlight with geometric glazing bars and margin panes. Door to No.35 has been glazed above the middle rail, plainer overlight. Both doors have stuccoed floating cornices on shallow stuccoed consoles and plain horizontal panels above the lintels. Blind windows above the doors. Segmental-headed carriageway to right with paired vertical boarded doors. 2 ground-, 3 first- and 4 second-floor windows, mostly early C19 16-pane hornless sashes, except ground-floor left which has been altered to 8 over 1-pane and a 20-pane timber sash to 2nd floor right. 2nd-floor window left is a later horned 16-pane timber sash inserted into a loft opening made up of vertical boards. Wrought-iron bracket on front to support hanging sign which no longer exists. Rear elevation of No.34 has slate-hung 2nd floor, one ground and one first-floor sash window and a section of brick walling above the cartway. The rear wing has 2 front doors, one ground floor 16-pane sash and 2-light casements elsewhere. Outbuildings: west and east ranges have weatherboarded 1st floors to the courtyard and set of 2- and 3-light mullioned windows with lapped glass. The west range has a lower roofline than the house. West wall stone rubble. Ground floor has 2 doorways and 1 window. 1st floor has 1 window and a loft doorway with C20 door. East range has a brick east wall; 2 ground- and 2 first-floor windows; 3 windows on 1st floor east side. South range, parallel to the house, opening onto yard at south end of the complex, is stone rubble with brick dressings, roof hipped at west end, half-hipped at right end. South side has an outshut to left with catslide roof, archway through to yard alongside and 1 ground- and one 1st-floor boarded window. Right end corner canted with windows. INTERIORS: houses not inspected but may retain features of interest. Outbuildings: plain and functional with exposed joists and C19 tie beam trusses with iron King-posts. A rare survival of a group of late Victorian small-scale light industrial buildings in the centre of a town. Also an important example of rear plot development in a town that retains its medieval layout of long rear plots behind the houses fronting the main street.

Listing NGR: SX7388166120

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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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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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)