26, Fore Street

EVERSHOT ST 5704 FORE STREET (North side) 7/21 No. 26 11.11.66 GV II Large attached house, formerly two. Early C18, or late C17, with C16 roof construction. Dressed stone walls. Thatch roof, with gable ends and stone gable-copings. Brick stacks, C20 at left hand gable, C20 at right hand ridge, C18 at right gable end. Two storeys and dormers. 5 windows, ground floor: window-door-window-door-window. Square-section stone mullions, beaded, 3-light to ground floor; 2-light, with 3-light in the end bays to first floor, C18. Iron casements with lead lights, C18 or C19. Front doorways, in bays 2 and 4, with stone architraves, pulvinated friezes and large moulded cornices. Plank- and-muntin door with lead lights, C20 (left). Plank door (stable-type), C20. Interior: flagstone floors. Fireplace in left hand end wall has stone jambs, straight-chamfered, with stepped stops, cambered wood lintel re-set. Elliptical arch to side of fireplace. First floor centre front room has plastered ceiling with 4 raised plasterwork rosettes (one, the fifth, missing). Panelled C18, window seats. Roof-construction: 3 bays of smoke-blackened principals with 2 sets of through purlins and wind-bracing. Mortices for collars, collars gone. Diagonal ridge-piece, C16. Rear range has C17 construction with butted through- purlins.

Listing NGR: ST5737504515