15 AND 15A, FORE STREET (See details for further address information)

TIVERTON

SS9512 FORE STREET, Tiverton 848-1/6/178 (South side) 14/12/72 Nos.15 AND 15A (Formerly Listed as: FORE STREET (South side) No.15)

GV II

Includes: 15A Fore Street PHOENIX LANE. House, now Bristol and West Building Society offices with accommodation over and to the rear. c1810 with c1860s alterations. Smooth-plastered mass wall construction; roof concealed behind parapet. left end and rear left corner stacks with rendered and brick shafts; cast-iron rainwater goods. PLAN: deep, narrow plan, tapering to the rear. One room wide, the rear left corner chamfered with the entrance to 15A on the left return from Phoenix Lane. The third storey, which exists at the front only, may have been added in the c1860s, when the front appears to have been given added architectural detail. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys at the front, 3 to the rear. Narrow one-bay front to Fore Street with left and right pilasters with sunk panels decorated with roundels. Platband at second-floor level. Deep projecting cornice above band at third-floor level suggests that the third floor, which has a cornice and parapet, is an addition. Late C20 commercial shop front. First and second-floor windows have moulded eared shouldered architraves and are glazed with 16-pane probably early C19 hornless sashes with old glass. Third-floor window is a plain 4 over 8-pane horned sash. The left return is blind at the right-hand end. Door to No.15A has a C19 pilaster doorcase with a cornice and a recessed 6-panel door, the upper panels fielded, the lower flush, the upper half of the door has been renewed. 2 first floor segmental-headed 12-pane horned sashes; one second floor similar. INTERIOR: partially inspected; replanned on the ground floor.

Listing NGR: SS9549712495