Description

ASHBURTON

SX7569 EAST STREET
849-1/10/53 (North side)
No.43

GV II

House. Late medieval. Originally extended further to right and
may have extended further left. Remodelled in its present
form, perhaps in C18; superficially altered and addition built
at rear, probably in C19. Very thick roughcast front wall.
Slated roof. C19 red-brick chimney on left gable end. Large
rendered chimney with tapered cap on rear wall, to left.
2-room-and-cross-passage with C20 staircase at rear of
passage. Latter is off-centre to right, but this medieval-type
plan seems unlikely to be earlier than late C17. 2 storeys. 3
windows wide. 4-panelled centre door, the 2 lower panels
flush, the 2 upper panels now glazed. Ground storey windows
have 2-paned sashes in recessed box-frames. Upper storey
windows have C20 metal casements. Coved eaves-cornice.
Interior: left-hand ground storey room has in rear wall a
partly blocked C16 fireplace with chamfered and moulded wood
lintel; above the chamfer a deeply sculpted hollow moulding
and above that the hacked-back mark of a former cornice.
Ovolo-moulded lengthways early or mid C17 ceiling beam with
Tudor roses and lozenges carved on its soffit; scroll-stops at
left-hand end, those to right cut off or buried by solid wall
next to passage. Matching half-beam with plain soffit, against
chimneybreast. Right side of latter curved as if for a
staircase. Room to right has mid or late C18 panelled door
with flush bottom panels. Roof has complete or almost complete
set of 4 or 5 blackened trusses, probably sooted from an open
hearth. Most have been mutilated, but the right-hand truss is
in its original condition with cranked collar, threaded
purlins, no ridge. Some purlins survive elsewhere in roof. C19
lath and plaster wall at right-hand end, next to No 45; thin
stone rubble wall to left, next to No 41. No 2 Hurst Court
(qv) may originally have been the rear wing of this house.

Listing NGR: SX7573969980

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569304

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