Description

CREDITON

SS826000 HIGH STREET
672-1/5/55 (South side)
11/10/72 Nos.15 & 16

GV II

Shop with accommodation over. Probably mid/late C18. Circa
1988 shop front. Painted Flemish bond brick; slate roof; stack
with brick shaft.
Exterior: 3 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-bay front. Roof with deep
eaves, an eaves fascia and moulded paired brackets. Right end
stack(s) in party wall. The ground floor is occupied by a
circa 1988 timber shopfront loosely based on late C19 models
with moulded brackets to the fascia. 3 first floor windows,
probably mid/late C18 in origin with flush frame sashes with
moulded architraves and keyblocks, the windows re-glazed in
the late C19 or C20 with 2-pane horned sashes. 3 second floor
windows with similar frames and glazing.
Interior: Ground floor only inspected, modernised, features of
interest may survive on the upper floors.
The existing shop front replaces an interesting arrangement
which had sash shop windows flanking a central doorway.

Listing NGR: SS8319900290

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491581

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)