Including Outbuildings Adjoining Number 17 At Rear

CREDITON

SS826000 ST LAWRENCE GREEN 672-1/5/148 (North side) 11/10/72 Nos.16 & 17 including outbuildings adjoining No 17 at rear

GV II

House, divided into 2, including outbuildings adjoining No 17. Early C17 or earlier origins, probably originally a farmhouse, later a coaching house, recast as 2 houses in the early C18 (documentation in the possession of owner) and refronted in the early C19. Stuccoed cob; slate roof; axial and 2 rear lateral stacks with brick shafts. Plan: Originally 3-room and through passage plan, higher end to the left (east), in No 16. A short rear wing at right angles to No 16 fronts onto Martin's Lane with a carriageway leading to a yard at the rear. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3:2 window south front with regular fenestration. No 16, to the left, has an early C19 front door with doorcase to right of centre. Doorcase with pilasters with incised fret decoration, flat porch hood with moulded cornice, recessed panelled front door. To the right of the front door one ground and one first floor tripartite sash, 12-pane in the centre, 4-pane in the outer lights. The left return of No 16 has a probably late C18 16-pane first floor sash with a moulded architrave over a wide carriageway. The cartway has boarded spandrels and a pair of C19 boarded doors with a wicket in one of them. The south front of No 17 is approximately symmetrical. Recessed 6-panel door with the top panels fielded; moulded doorcase with panelled reveals, shallow consoles, a rectangular panel over the lintel and a moulded cornice above the panel. Left hand windows, one to each floor, early C19 16-pane sashes (these are sited in the bay of the former through passage); right hand windows tripartite sashes matching those on No 16. Impressively long rear wing consists of former stables with stable doors and loft windows. Cob wall beyond contains ventilation slits blocked with brick, which was the wall of a (demolished) rope-making shop with a timber structure above the cob wall with gable end louvres and fittings for rope-twisting. Interior: No 16 (not fully inspected) has an entrance into a passage. Features of interest, C19 or possibly concealed and earlier are likely to survive. No 17 includes the former through passage, to left of the present front door which leads into a passage entrance. C18 stair with a flat moulded handrail rises from the rear with a blocked round-headed rear stair window. Several early C18 2-panel doors survive with HL hinges and moulded doorcases. First floor front right room retains an early C18 timber chimney-piece with an eared architrave. Roof: Apex not inspected but principal rafters showing in the first floor rooms of No 17 suggest an A-frame type. This house is one of the earliest surviving in the town, which was largely destroyed by fire in 1743.It is notable for its good early C19 front and unconverted outbuildings of interest.

Listing NGR: SS8272900427