69 and 70, High Street

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment 29/04/2020

SS826000 672-1/5/78

CREDITON HIGH STREET (South side) Nos. 69 and 70

11/10/72

GV II Two houses, formerly incorporating a shop. Probably late C18. Painted Flemish bond brick; slate roof; stack with brick shaft.

Plan: double depth plan, each house one room wide.

Exterior: two storeys. Asymmetrical two: one-window front, No.69 to the left. Deep eaves with a boxed eaves cornice. Houses have adjacent front doorways in the centre, each with a step up; double timber doorcase with pilasters, panelled reveals, panelled front doors and an entablature with moulded cornice which extends across most of the front of No.70 above a ground floor sixteen-pane hornless sash; pilaster on front of No.70 at right end of entablature. No.69 has matching sixteen-pane ground floor sash to the right. No.70 has a first floor original tripartite sash, twelve-pane to the centre, four-panes to the outer lights; similar window to first floor left of No.60, which also has a sixteen-pane hornless timber sash over the front door.

Interior: not inspected but may retain features of interest.

Listing NGR: SS8280600367