Description

CREDITON

SS826000 HIGH STREET
672-1/5/57 (South side)
11/10/72 Nos.18 & 18A

GV II

2 shops with accommodation over. Probably late C18; c.1900
shopfronts. Stuccoed with a slate roof, the roof of No 18A
replaced with corrugated asbestos to rear of the ridge; stack
with rendered shafts.
Plan: U-plan, with central passageway to narrow rear court
flanked by rear wings.
Exterior: 3 storeys. Symmetrical 4-bay front. Roof with deep
eaves and paired brackets. Left and right pilasters with
moulded sunk panels. Platband at second floor level. First
floor windows with keyblocks glazed with early C19 12-pane
sashes; second floor windows glazed with early C19 3/6-pane
sashes. The ground floor front is single-phase. Pilasters to
left and right and flanking the central passageway have 2
tiers of sunk panels with faceted decoration between to No
18A, slightly plainer to No 18. Both have pairs of elaborately
moulded consoles with gables and a moulded cornice above the
fascia. Massive 5-panel door to the central passageway, richly
panelled with a drop latch and closing into a recess in the
passage wall. Identical shop fronts: modern fascia board to No
18 partly conceals the cornice moulding. Each shop has windows
with moulded frames and rounded upper corners canted into a
glazed central door with a low panel and overlight: rounded
upper corners to door pane and overlight. The shop windows
were originally both 2-pane to the front, one to the return;
No 18A has had the centre, slender mullion removed. No 18 has
pretty encaustic tiles in front of the door. Through the
passageway the right return of No 18 has a C19 4-panel door
with an overlight and panelled reveals. Various rear
additions, but that nearest the shop probably circa mid C19
with a first floor canted bay window and 2 ground floor
12-pane sashes. The rear of No 18a has a cob rear wing with a
pantile roof, possibly pre-dating the 1743 fire of Crediton.
Interior: Ground floors only inspected, altered for shop use
but features of interest may survive on the upper floors. The
narrow rear court is a good surviving example, once typical of
the south side of High Street.

Listing NGR: SS8317700298

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584888

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