Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7466 FORE STREET
1011-1/7/73 (South side)
Nos.22 AND 23

GV II

House including shop. No.22 probably early C18 in origin,
remodelled in the late 1850s or early 1860s, contemporary with
No.23. Local stone rubble, stuccoed and blocked out; slate
roof, gabled at ends; stacks with rendered shafts with
platbands and attractive barley-sugar twisted pot. Plan:
double-depth plan, 2 rooms wide, passage entrance to left of
shopfront. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1:3-window front
with regular fenestration. Left hand block slightly broken
forward with a canted corner and gabled to the front with
curly pierced bargeboards. 2 ground- and one first-floor
4-pane late C19 horned sash windows. Doorway into
accommodation of right-hand block to left. Moulded doorcase;
6-panel door with overlight. Late C19 shop front to right with
pilasters with sunk panels with projecting cornice with
stylised foliage frieze. Plate-glass shop window with moulded
frame and rounded upper corners. Half-glazed panelled shop
door to left with deep overlight with rounded upper corners. 3
first-floor 4-pane hornless sash windows with moulded
architraves and sill blocks. INTERIOR: No.22 modernised inside
but the attic space contains an externally-blocked 2-light
timber mullioned window with panes and the truss of the
section gabled to the road re-uses a jointed cruck as a
principal rafter. The main roof, rear of the gable block has
the principal rafters mortised into tie beams.

Listing NGR: SX7402066130

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580320

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Recommended Books

• 
  For the Record
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)