Description

CREDITON

SS826000 HIGH STREET
672-1/5/74 (North side)
11/10/72 Nos.57 & 59

GV II

House, now divided into 3 cottages. Early C18.Roughcast with a
pantile roof; stacks with massive hand-made brick shafts.
Plan: U-plan: single depth range, 4 rooms wide, with a cart
entrance at the right end of No 58.
Exterior: 2 storeys with original coved eaves. 1:2:2 window
front, No 57 to the left. No 57 has steps up to a C19 4-panel
door to the right, one first floor 16-pane C18 sash and a
possibly slightly later similar sash to ground floor left. No
58 has the cart entrance to the right with C20 plank doors and
a door to the house alongside with an overlight and a C20
door. One ground floor and 2 first floor late C19 2-pane
horned sashes with margin panes. No 59 has a C20 borded door
in the centre with 2 ground and 2 first floor late C19 horned
sashes with margin panes. Rear wings to the 2 right hand
houses create a courtyard behind the main range. This is paved
with pitched stone with granite slabs to accommodate the
wheels of carts that came to repaired at the wheelwrights
workshop at the rear.
Interior: No 57. This has a right end fireplace to the front
room, small service room to the rear. Boxed stair adjacent to
the left end wall. Nos 58 has a crossbeam and is said to
preserve a timber lintel to the ground floor fireplace. No 58
not inspected but may contain the original stair and other
features of interest.

Listing NGR: SS8287900359

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584891

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