Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7466 FORE STREET
1011-1/7/68 (South side)
06/01/83 Nos.3 AND 4
(Formerly Listed as:
FORE STREET
(South side)
Nos.2, 3 AND 4)

GV II

2 shops with accommodation to rear, first floor converted to
flats. c1830s with an earlier core. Shop front c1880s.
Plastered; gabled slate roof; right end stack (shaft
dismantled), axial stacks with old pots; cast-iron rainwater
goods.
Plan: L-plan. The main block is 2 rooms wide and double-depth
with a rear right wing at right-angles, projecting into a rear
court behind Fore Street. There is some fragmentary internal
evidence of an earlier core.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical but regular 3-bay front, the
centre bay, with banded rustication, broken forward. Deep
eaves with a dentil cornice. Platband at first-floor level,
outer bays have eaves band with string course below. The
centre bay on the ground floor has a shop front with doorway
to right. Pilasters with sunk panels and triglyph-decorated
capitals flank doorway and shop front with a continuous
cornice on shallow moulded consoles. Recessed, glazed shop
door with overlight and sunk panelled reveals to the doorcase.
Ground-floor window left is a C19 tripartite sash with 16
panes in the centre and 4 in the outer lights. To right of the
front a recessed 6-panel C19 door with overlight to No.4 with
panelled reveals to the doorcase. 2 outer first-floor windows
are early C19 16-pane sashes in shallow round-headed recesses.
Similar central first-floor window in a square recess with
floating cornice.
INTERIOR: altered for shop use with some partitions removed.
Rear left room retains a C19 kitchen range in the fireplace.
Rear right room has a corner fireplace, probably c1700 in
origin, and a chamfered cross beam which may also be early
C18. Roof said to be concealed for fireproofing but probably
of interest.

Listing NGR: SX7409766118

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505141

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