137, High Street

This is a late 18th or early 19th century house, later used as commercial premises, now a shop, office, and restaurant with accommodation above, located on the north side of Crediton High Street. The front elevation is made of handmade Flemish bond brick with painted dressings; the right return and rear are plastered, with some cob construction. The roof is hipped and slate-covered, concealed behind a parapet, and incorporates axial and rear lateral brick stacks. The building follows a U-plan with projecting rear wings and a single-depth main block.

The front elevation is symmetrical above the ground floor, with three bays featuring left and right pilasters. The central bay is slightly projected, featuring pilasters and a boldly moulded pediment containing a blind roundel with a moulded frame and a (disused) clock face. Platbands sit at the second floor sill level of the outer bays. The first floor windows, which form the piano nobile, are treated with moulded architraves; the central window has a triangular pediment on consoles, and the side windows have moulded architraves. All first-floor windows are high transomed casements with glazing bars and margin panes. There are three further windows on the first floor with moulded architraves, fitted with 2/4 pane sashes with margin panes. A late 20th-century shop window, retaining a late 19th-century fascia, is on the left, flanked by doors, with the left-hand door blocked. The right-hand doorway has a recessed 20th-century glazed door with an overlight. A 20th-century plate glass shop front and a door are on the ground floor to the right, now an office. The right return, facing North Street, has a high transomed first-floor window and a half-basement window. The rear wing features various 19th-century timber casements and sashes and includes an old cast iron street sign with a pointing hand. The rear elevation has a 19th-century doorcase with moulded brackets and a round-headed stair window with margin panes. Various timber casements and sashes exist on the rear, including a sliding sash on the inner return of the rear right wing.

The interior includes a good open-well stick baluster staircase with a ramped mahogany handrail to the rear, and some flats are noted as having slate chimney-pieces.