Description

BOVEY TRACEY FORE STREET, Bovey Tracey
SX 8178

11/70 Nos. 25, 25A, 27 and 27A
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- II

Shop and flats, formerly a house. C16 with later additions. Solid rendered walls,
partly at least of cob. Asbestos slated roofs. Front range with chimney-shaft on
each gable; late C19 brick to left, C16 or C17 granite ashlar with tapered top to
right. L-shaped plan, the front range possibly of 3-room and cross-passage type
originally. Late C16 or C17 addition over archway to right. C20 addition at rear,
off-centre to right. 2 storeys. 4-window front. Ground storey has centre doorway
with early C19 reeded wood surround; pair of small brackets originally intended to
support a hood. Late C19 shop window at either side. At far left-hand end a C20
window, probably a former doorway. At far right-hand end a flat-headed cart-
entrance, its rear end having a chamfered wood lintel with scroll-stops on one side
and straight-cut stops on the other. In second storey a blocked window in centre; 2
windows to left, each with 2-pane sashes. 2 C20 windows to right.
Interior: shop door opens into former cross-passage. Similar ceiling-beams at
either side with half-round, hollow and ogee mouldings; right-hand beam partly
concealed by existing partition, left-hand beam with stud-mortices below, allowing
for doorway in centre of former partition. To left of former passage the ceiling is
considerably higher, possibly because a former open hall has been floored over in
late C16 or C17. It has a full beam and a half-beam, both ovolo-moulded and with a
raised run-out stop surviving; the half-beam abuts the wall above the partition-
beam. To left of this ceiling is a plain boxed beam, possibly representing the
former division between hall and inner room. To right of cross-passage a room with
chamfered ceiling-beam. Rear wing, to left, has plastered chamfered ceiling-beam.
Doorway from wing to front range has wood bolection-moulded architrave with
pulvinated frieze above, almost touching a fragment of box-cornice. Front range
seems to have been mostly re-roofed in C19. Closed truss of C16 or C17 with
threaded purlins survives over division between cross-passage and lower room; feet
of truss not visible. Room over cart-entrance separated from main house by cob
wall; roofed with purlins fixed to end walls. Rear wing has jointed cruck trusses.
Other features of interest are almost certainly concealed under plaster.

Listing NGR: SX8154778399

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618778

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