Council Offices

The Council Offices in Crediton are an office building constructed around 1850 for the Downes Estate. It later served as a police station and is now used as council offices. The building is designed in the Italianate style and features Flemish bond brick with Bathstone dressings and a slate roof, along with an axial stack that has a corbelled brick shaft.

The structure is two storeys high with a symmetrical five-bay front. It has a hipped slate roof with deep eaves supported by moulded brackets and a cornice below. The ground floor showcases a stone band that rises to form moulded round-headed arches with keystones above the windows and door. The central round-headed doorway has a large fanlight and is flanked by glazed vertical panels, with a 20th-century replacement door. The round-headed windows on the ground floor are recessed beneath the stone arches, featuring gauged brick arches and are glazed with sash windows that have spoke glazing bars. The first floor has five 12-pane sash windows, each with moulded stone architraves and stone sills. The platbands extend around the returns, which also retain their original sash windows, with some original sash windows visible at the rear.

Inside, the building contains original joinery and a stick baluster stair. It is particularly significant for its group value with the 1836 buildings located in both Market Street and Parliament Street.