Description

SX 8178 BOVEY TRACEY EAST STREET (south side),
Bovey Tracey
11/66
- Little Front House

GV II

Self-catering apartments, part of Front House Guest House (q.v.); formerly a
single house. C16 or early C17, with later additions. Stone and timber-framing.
Tarred, slated roof gable-end on to street. Rendered chimney-stack in left-hand
wall. Seems to have been one room wide and 2 rooms deep, with some evidence of a
passage on right-hand side. 2 storeys. Jettied, timber-framed front covered with
roughcast; set between side-walls faced with granite ashlar, the upper storeys
projecting on moulded corbels to match the jetty. 1 C20 window in each storey: 4-
light casement with leaded panes to right of ground storey, 4-light casement with 2
transom-lights in centre of second storey. Tie-beam and principal rafters with
notched apex exposed in gable, probably C19. Projecting eaves on brackets, also
C19. Lean-to on right-hand side a later addition; double doors late C18 or early
C19, each leaf with flush lower panel of wood and later glazed upper panel. To
left a rubble wall masking the 80-centimetre gap between Little Front House and
Front House Guest House. Original rear wall of rendered stone.
Interior: ground storey has fireplace with chamfered wood lintel roughly central
in left-hand wall. Former partition-beam with large mortices on its soffit butts
into the rear end of the chimney-breast. Above a C20 partition dividing off the
front of the house a chamfered beam with step-stops; at right-hand end disused
mortices, probably for a former side-passage partition, its position defined by
step-stops. Heavy plain joists with pegged trimmer, probably for a former
staircase adjoining side-passage. Doorway with chamfered wood lintel in right-hand
side-wall. Second storey and roof not inspected. This is the only house in Bovey
Tracey to retain the jettied front of mixed stone and timber construction
characteristic of the richer Devon towns is C16 and C17.

Listing NGR: SX8174478566

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618777

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)