41 And 43, St Peter Street

Two adjoining houses at 41 and 43 St Peter Street, Tiverton, are believed to have originally been a single property, dating from the 1820s or earlier. The houses are built with a mass wall construction, reportedly using a timber stud frame with cob infill, and a party wall between the properties. They have slate roofs, with one half-hipped at the right end, and end stacks with brick shafts topped with a variety of old pots and cast-iron rainwater goods.

Number 43 has a plan showing one room wide and two rooms deep, with a former basement kitchen and an entrance passage centrally located, containing a staircase. The rooms are heated from a left-end stack. Number 41 also has an entrance situated towards the middle of the range.

The exterior is two storeys with an asymmetrical two-bay front to each house. Number 43 features a six-panel front door with glazed upper panels and fielded lower panels, set within a pilastered doorcase with fielded panelled reveals. The left-hand windows are 16-pane hornless sashes, with a 12-pane sash above the front door. Number 41 has a simpler doorway with a recessed six-panel front door with fielded panels and reveals. It has two ground floor and two first floor boxed 16-pane sash windows.

The interior of Number 43 was inspected and preserves an early 19th-century stick baluster staircase and other original joinery. The front parlour has round-headed recesses on either side of the fireplace, featuring decorative plaster leaf motifs, and 19th-century fitted cupboards flanking the fireplace in the rear room. The cob construction is unusual for the area.