62 And 63, High Street

A house, now divided into two houses and a shop, dating from the early 18th century, with significant alterations in the late 19th century. The front is constructed of Flemish bond brick, with a cob structure behind. The roof is slate, with a gabled thatched roof to the rear left wing and a hipped slate roof to a later rear wing. Brick stacks are located at the left end and left lateral side of the building.

The original layout comprised a single-depth main range with an early rear left wing at a right angle, serving as a wing to No. 62. The front is asymmetrical, with five windows, two belonging to No. 62. A lower-roofed block forms the right end addition. The front elevation features a band of cream brick below the eaves and a decorative band of stamped tiles.

No. 62 has a late 19th-century doorcase with incised fret decoration, pilasters, a cornice on consoles, and panelled reveals, flanking a recessed four-panel door with an overlight containing margin panes. To the left of the doorway is a 16-pane sash window with a segmental arched head, and above, two 12-pane sashes also with segmental arched heads. No. 63 has an identical doorcase. To its right are large, plate glass shop windows leading to a central, glazed 20th-century shop door with plain pilasters and a moulded cornice.

The interior of No. 62 revealed a massive chamfered axial beam with run-out stops in the rear wing, along with original parlour cupboards with fielded panels. A further early 18th-century detail is a two-panel door with fielded panels on the first floor. The roof of the rear wing is a 18th-century A-frame structure with through purlins; the collars were formerly lapped and pegged onto the principal rafters. A 19th-century marble chimney-piece remains in the front ground floor room. The rear cob block was likely originally a workshop and later used as a slaughterhouse when the premises were run as a butcher's shop. The building predates the 1743 Crediton fire.