Description

1.
5180 FORE STREET
(South Side)
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No 68
SX 8060 SW 2/35A 7.1.52.

II* GV

2.
Possibly a single storey medieval hall, heightened in the C17 and refronted mid
C18. (M Laithwaite). The building retains its detached back block (former kitchen
now No 68A) and gallery, both much altered, of "deux corps de batiments" type.
2 storeys and attics 1st floor with 2 paired windows. Welsh slate roof with bitumen
asphalt sheets and gabled front. Masonry party walls of Devonian limestone rubble
with traces of moulded corbel of former C17 jetty to 1st floor at west end. Party
wall on west side much patched with evidence for blocked windows with timber lintols;
rear block with 2 light wooden mullioned window with chamfered mouldings and stay
bars. Plastered, timber-framed front. Architraved sash windows with exposed boxing
and glazing bars to attic and 1st floor. Modern shopfront, but retains heavy boxed-out
cornice of former C18 shop. Chamfered ground floor ceiling beams. Grade II* for
group value.

Listing NGR: SX8031060409

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534287

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)