Description

1.
5180 HIGH STREET
(South Side)
No 2
(Eastgate House)
SX 8060 SW 1/98 7.1.52.

II* GV

2.
Probably refronted circa 1835 at the same time as the Eastgate was rebuilt (qv).
The site of the principal inn of Totnes known as the King's Arms: renamed the King's
Head in 1642. In 1762 known as the Angel Inn with 4 parlours, a large dining room
that extended across the street, 15 lodging rooms, 2 kitchens, a coach house and
stabling for upwards of 40 horses. In 1824 a ballroom was built at the rear. In
1850 Lord Seymour purchased the building and opened it as a Mechanic's Institute
and Reading Room. Latterly the Berry Pomeroy estate office. 3 storeys. 3 windows.
Hipped Welsh slate roof. Stucco front with boxed-out wooden eaves cornice. Plinth.
Architraved sash with glazing bars. Round-arched staircase window with radial glazing
and margin lights. Round-arched, architraved doorway with radial fanlight and raised
and fielded panel door. Interior with geometrical staircase and bracketed cornice
to hall of 1835. At the rear the former ballroom of 1824 has a hipped Welsh slate
roof with projecting eaves and slate-hung walls: interior of ballroom with moulded
plaster cornice and ceiling rose; chimneypiece with good hob grate. The east return
to South Street incorporates at ground floor level the battered base of the medieval
town wall in coursed Devonian limestone rubble. Grade II* for group value. (M.
Laithwaite).

Listing NGR: SX8027160417

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534064

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