12, Newport Street

TIVERTON

SS9512 NEWPORT STREET, Tiverton 848-1/6/230 (North side) 14/12/72 No.12

GV II

Shop with accommodation above. c1820s. Mass wall construction. Stucco, with some traces of blocking out on Newport Street side. Castle Street elevation painted brick. Roof of natural slate, hipped with lead rolls to corner of Newport Street and Castle Street. Cast-iron rain water goods. Chimney stacks have brick shafts and corbelled cornices. Chimney pots have crowned tops. PLAN: positioned on a corner site with a canted corner. L-plan with 2 rooms to Newport Street and original stair probably being adjacent to stack in right-hand room. One-room plan wing to Castle Street heated by corner fireplace which formerly served left-hand room to Newport Street. Entrance is from Newport Street into heated room. Present property now extends into No.14 Newport Street which is excluded from this listing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with asymmetrical 2-window front to Newport Street with Tudor arch headed doorway in centre which is occupied by a recessed plank door. To left is a 2-light, plate glass shop window with moulded mullion. To right is a 16-pane hornless sash window. First floor left window is late C19/early C20 4-pane horned sash. C19 2-light casement window with 8 panes per light to right. Modern shop canopy. Castle Street elevation has lower roof line to left and internal front stack. Each floor has a 2-light C19 casement window with glazing bars. Blocked opening to ground floor left. INTERIOR: only the ground floor was inspected. Exposed crossbeam of slender scantling with slender sawn joists. Fireplaces have segmental brick arches. Fireplace in right-hand room has large centrally positioned commercial bread over with its iron door still intact. New staircase in main room. HISTORY: according to owner the premises are reputed to have been a bakery at one time.

Listing NGR: SS9553412802