Council Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1992. Office building. 5 related planning applications.
Council Offices
- WRENN ID
- ancient-shingle-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1992
- Type
- Office building
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CREDITON
SS826000 MARKET STREET 672-1/5/124 (West side) Council Offices
GV II
Office building. Built for the Downes Estate,later a police station, now used as council offices. Circa 1850. Flemish bond brick with Bathstone dressings; slate roof; axial stack with corbelled brick shaft. Italianate style. Plan: double-depth,2 rooms wide with a central stair hall. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay front with a hipped slate roof with deep eaves on moulded brackets with a cornice below. The ground floor has a stone band rising as moulded round-headed arches with keystones over the windows and door. Central round-headed doorway with a large fanlight; C20 replacement door flanked by glazed vertical panels. Round-headed ground floor windows recessed below the stone arches with guaged brick arches, glazed with sash windows with spoke glazing bars. 5 first floor 12-pane sashes with moulded stone architraves and stone sills. The platbands are carried round the returns, which also preserve their original sash windows; some origianl sash windows visible on rear. Interior: Contains original joinery and a stick baluster stair. Particularly important for group value with the 1836 buildings, both in Market Street and in Parliament Street.
Listing NGR: SS8322800409
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