32, 34 AND 36, ST PETER STREET

TIVERTON

SS9512 ST PETER STREET, Tiverton 848-1/6/291 (West side) 14/12/72 Nos.32, 34 AND 36

GV II

House, believed to have been divided into three cottages in the 1950s; No.32 now used as office. 1720s or earlier. MATERIALS: smooth-plastered mass wall construction to ground floor front, thinner front wall to No.32 at least; left gable end rebuilt in brick. Slate roof, natural slate to No.32; left end stack with shaft dismantled; rear right lateral stack with brick shaft and crested pot; No.32 has cast-iron rainwater goods. PLAN: single depth main range, 2 rooms wide (formerly extended further to the left) with small courtyard to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement. Asymmetrical 3-window front with eaves cornice. Approximately central front door, the upper panels glazed, with overlight. No.34 to right of centre has a C20 6-panel door with fielded panels and tripartite sash alongside with a 12-pane light in the centre and 4-pane outer lights. No.32, to the right, has a former shop front with a cornice and a C20 timber and glazed door with older pilastered doorcase and a tripartite horned sash shop window with 4-pane central light and outer 2-pane lights. INTERIOR: No.32 preserves C18 2-panel doors and a small cast-iron C19 grate and timber chimney-piece on the first floor. Considerable timber replacement in the roof which is of collar rafter design with nailed collars and butt purlins. The trusses have carpenter's assembly marks and some evidence of charring. No.36 has a boxed-in crossbeam and features of interest may survive elsewhere, concealed by later wall plaster etc.

Listing NGR: SS9538612695