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TIVERTON

SS9512 CASTLE STREET, Tiverton
848-1/6/150 (East side)
14/12/72 Nos.23 AND 25
(Formerly Listed as:
CASTLE STREET
(East side)
Nos.1 to 15 (odd), Nos.19 to 25
(odd), Nos.29 to 37 (odd))

GV II

Pair of houses. c1820s. Flemish bond brick; natural slate
roof, gabled at ends; stacks with brick shafts and old pots
(some crested), one shaft roughcast. Probably mirror plan. 23
has a wide entrance passage to the right containing the stair
(and stair to basement) and 2 rooms to the left, one behind
the other, heated from end stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front with
segmental-headed arches to the windows with rubbed brick
arches on the ground floor. Pilastered wood doorcases with
projecting cornices, fielded panelled reveals and recessed
front doors. No.2 has a 6-panel front door with fielded
panels, the upper panels glazed, No.25 has a small-pane glazed
door. Windows are 2-pane sashes, windows to No.23 with horns;
barred basement windows.
INTERIOR: No.23 retains early C19 joinery including 2-panel
cupboards and 4-panel doors. Stick baluster stair with turned
newels.
HISTORY: deed in the possession of the owner of No.25 shows it
being let out in the 1820s.

Listing NGR: SS9555412876