5, Fore Street

TIVERTON

SS9512 FORE STREET, Tiverton 848-1/6/175 (South side) 12/02/52 No.5

GV II

House, formerly shop, now cafe. c1820 or earlier. Smooth plastered mass wall construction; roof at front concealed behind parapet but judging from the rear the house is roofed end on to the road - roof to rear slated and hipped to end. 2 right stacks with brick shaft with band; left end stack (towards rear) with an old brick shaft and bands. 2 rooms deep, one room wide. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Symmetrical 2-bay front with rusticated pilasters, plain coped parapet ramps down to centre. Ground floor has remnants of a c1830s shop front in the form of 2 fluted Greek Doric columns at either end, now supporting a large, plain projecting fascia. In the centre of the shop front a probably early C20 bay window of 3 lights is high-transomed with small panes above the transom. Doorways to left and right. The left-hand doorway is round-headed with a glazed door with a low panel; the right-hand doorway is similar with a glazed door with a low panel but with a plain fanlight. The first floor has probably late C19 4-pane sashes with segmental heads. The second-floor windows are c1830s 12-pane sashes. The rear elevation is less altered. It is cement rendered with a hipped roof. C20 half-glazed rear door to left with glazed side panel and 3-pane overlight. The 2 windows of the left-hand bay are 12-pane early C19 sashes, the first-floor window altered to one pane in the top light. The 3 windows in the right-hand bay are early C19 16-pane sashes the ground-floor window altered with one pane only in the top light. INTERIOR: partially inspected. Ground floor altered for commercial use. On the ground floor; stair cell between front and rear rooms with stair rising axially.

Listing NGR: SS9545512484