1-4, Buller Square

CREDITON

SS834000 BULLER SQUARE 672-1/6/11 Nos.1-4 (Consecutive) 11/10/72

GV II

Two ranges incorporating 4 houses; originally probably one house and an agricultural building. Probably late C16 in origins or earlier, but thoroughly altered in the circa early C19 with further alterations of the C20. Roughcast, probably cob; thatched roofs with plain ridges; rear lateral and axial stacks with brick shafts. Plan: 2 ranges of a courtyard plan, the third (south) range being the barn belonging to No 27, Downeshead Lane (q.v.). Nos 2 & 3 have rear right wings. C20 rear lean-to to No 4. Exterior: 2 storeys. 1:2:1-window east front to the east range with C20 timber casements of various designs in enlarged embrasures. The eaves thatch is eyebrowed over the first floor window of No 1. No 3 has a C20 timber half-glazed door with small panes to the right and one ground and one first floor window. No 2 has a C19 panelled front door to the right, the upper panels glazed and one ground and 2 first floor windows. No 1 has a C20 half-glazed door to the right and one first and one ground floor window. No 4 has a C20 timber front door to the right and 3 ground and 4 first floor C20 timber small pane windows with concrete architraves. Casements with leaded panes, mentioned in the 1972 list description of this range, have disappeared. The yard has attractive pitched stone paving. Interior: No 1 has probably 1930s or 40s carpentry and fireplaces on the ground floor. Winding stair against front wall to the right. The first floor has wide elm floorboards. Thinning of the wall round the first floor front window suggests a possible former loft doorway and an agricultural function to the building at one time. The roof has a side-pegged jointed cruck truss against the left end wall, the upper parts cut off when the stack was inserted. The original purlins appear to extend as far as the right end wall. The other truss is a later replacement and the pitch of the roof has been made shallower to rear of the ridge with a new set of rafters. No 2 has a very long, chamfered, axial ceiling beam to the ground floor and a probably C18 stair to the right. Roof trusses probably A-frames of a C19 character. No 3 has a long chamfered axial beam to the ground floor and a fireplace reduced in size. No 4, the wing, has chamfered step-stopped cross beams and exposed joists - first floor not seen on survey.

Listing NGR: SS8397800081