Oliver House

Oliver House is an early 18th-century house, later divided into a house and offices, with alterations in the late 18th/early 19th century and the 20th century. It is situated on North Street, Crediton. The front of No. 6 is roughcast, while No. 7 is plastered over a probable stone and cob structure; both have slate roofs and stacks with brick shafts. The house has a roughly rectangular double-depth plan, originally a single dwelling.

The asymmetrical facade has a 4:3 window arrangement and a gabled slate roof, with a shallower roofline over the right-hand bay of No. 7, which was formerly a cartway. No. 6 has sprocketted eaves and a moulded eaves cornice. The central entrance has an early 19th-century doorcase with panelled pilasters, a rounded vertical moulding, an entablature with a cornice, and possibly panelled reveals, with a plain board below. The doorway has a 5-panel door with an overlight containing geometric glazing bars, and a boot scraper to the right. The ground floor right window is a 12-pane sash, while the ground floor left window is a 16-pane sash, with the lower light reglazed as a 1-pane. There are four first-floor windows, all with 12-pane sashes. The right-hand window retains an early 18th-century moulded architrave, and a horned sash. The two right-hand windows have older glass. The rear elevation features three first-floor and two ground-floor early 19th-century sash windows.

The ground floor interior shows a staircase with stick balusters and a mahogany handrail. No. 7 features deep eaves with moulded eaves brackets. An axial stack is at the rear, and the shaft of the front stack has been removed. A doorway to the right of centre has a late 18th-century doorcase with panelled pilasters, a panel over the lintel, paired brackets to the cornice, and possibly boarded reveals. The doorway has a 6-panel door with fielded panels and a deep overlight. A segmental-headed doorway to the far right replaced the former cartway, with three ground floor and three first floor 12-pane sashes. The rear elevation has a tall round-headed stair window with spoke glazing bars and margin panes. The rear left addition has a dentil cornice and two early 19th-century small-pane French windows that open onto the rear garden. The interior of No. 7 includes a late 18th-century open-well staircase with mahogany newels and a handrail, replaced stick balusters, plaster cornices, and a stair well ceiling rose from the 18th century. The joinery includes 18th-century doors with fielded panels and moulded doorcases.