Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 CHAPEL STREET
1011-1/6/53 (South side)
06/01/83 Nos.34 AND 35
and attached outbuildings to rear

GV II

Shown as 34, 35 & 36 (the latter the rear wing) on OS map.
Pair of houses, one with some history of partial industrial
use. No.34 in course of renovation at time of survey (1992).
c1830s. Colourwashed, stuccoed and blocked out, left end
slate-hung. Slate roof, gabled at right end, half-hipped at
left end; stacks with rendered shafts.
Outbuildings to rear: formerly used as builder's yard, offices
and store-rooms. c1880s. Partly local grey limestone rubble
with some brick, partly timber-framed and weatherboarded.
Turnerised pegslate roof; stack with brick shaft.
Plan: double-depth rectangular plan to main blocks with
carriageway entrance to left. Outbuildings: U-plan range, the
west range attached to rear wing of No.34, with a way through
the south range to N end of the court. Parallel east and west
ranges create a narrow walkway between. Cartway through front
of house gave access from Fore Street.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front. Adjacent,
recessed front doors to left of centre, No.34 original with a
door of 6 fielded panels and deep overlight with geometric
glazing bars and margin panes. Door to No.35 has been glazed
above the middle rail, plainer overlight. Both doors have
stuccoed floating cornices on shallow stuccoed consoles and
plain horizontal panels above the lintels. Blind windows above
the doors.
Segmental-headed carriageway to right with paired vertical
boarded doors. 2 ground-, 3 first- and 4 second-floor windows,
mostly early C19 16-pane hornless sashes, except ground-floor
left which has been altered to 8 over 1-pane and a 20-pane
timber sash to 2nd floor right. 2nd-floor window left is a
later horned 16-pane timber sash inserted into a loft opening
made up of vertical boards. Wrought-iron bracket on front to
support hanging sign which no longer exists.
Rear elevation of No.34 has slate-hung 2nd floor, one ground
and one first-floor sash window and a section of brick walling
above the cartway. The rear wing has 2 front doors, one ground
floor 16-pane sash and 2-light casements elsewhere.
Outbuildings: west and east ranges have weatherboarded 1st
floors to the courtyard and set of 2- and 3-light mullioned
windows with lapped glass. The west range has a lower roofline
than the house. West wall stone rubble. Ground floor has 2
doorways and 1 window. 1st floor has 1 window and a loft
doorway with C20 door. East range has a brick east wall; 2
ground- and 2 first-floor windows; 3 windows on 1st floor east
side. South range, parallel to the house, opening onto yard at
south end of the complex, is stone rubble with brick
dressings, roof hipped at west end, half-hipped at right end.
South side has an outshut to left with catslide roof, archway
through to yard alongside and 1 ground- and one 1st-floor
boarded window. Right end corner canted with windows.
INTERIORS: houses not inspected but may retain features of
interest. Outbuildings: plain and functional with exposed
joists and C19 tie beam trusses with iron King-posts.
A rare survival of a group of late Victorian small-scale light
industrial buildings in the centre of a town. Also an
important example of rear plot development in a town that
retains its medieval layout of long rear plots behind the
houses fronting the main street.

Listing NGR: SX7388166120

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580445

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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