Grasshoppers The Stores

EAST BUDLEIGH HIGH STREET (east side) Cast SY 0684 Budleigh 8/98 No. 14, The Stores and No. 16, - Grasshoppers GV II 2 shops with accommodation above and a house. C18 refurbished in C19. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble or brick stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; slate roof. Long building facing west onto High Street. No.14, The Stores, is on the right and comprises a shop with a room over and at the right (southern) end a 2-room plan house with central staircase plan. The left room has a rear lateral stack and the right room has an end stack. No. 16 Grasshoppers, on the left (northern) end, had a 2-room plan but now they have been knocked together on the ground floor to form a tea shop. The larger of the 2 room-spaces to the right has a rear lateral stack. Here the stairs rise against the wall to rear of the left room. 2 storeys throughout. Grasshoppers has a nearly symmetrical 2-window front of C19 and C20 replacement casement windows with glazing bars and with a central part-glazed C20 door. The house at the right end, part of The Stores, has a balanced but not symmetrical 2- window front of C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars and a central C19 6-panel door (the top 2 now glazed). The Stores-shop has a projecting bay window; late C19- early C20 entablature but the glazing replaced without glazing bars. Part-glazed door in the centre. Above this is a small 16-pane sash window with a vallance above. Small extra casement to right of it. Interiors of both houses shows mostly C19 joinery detail and other features. However the shop in The Stores and the room to right both nave axial beams with broad neat soffit chamfers without stops. These must be C18 if not late C17. The roof here might be C18 too. It comprises A-frame truss with iron-spiked lap-jointed collars and x-apexes. The Stores and Grasshoppers make up part of a group of attractive and varied buildings which line High Street as it rises towards the Church of All Saints (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SY0663484809