The Ship Hotel

CREDITON

SS826000 HIGH STREET 672-1/5/108 (North side) 11/10/72 No.132 The Ship Hotel

GV II

Includes: Ship Hotel MARKET STREET. Hotel. c.late 1830s, contemporary with the 1836 town improvement scheme which moved the Market to a permanent site and altered the road plan of the town. Painted Flemish bond brick; slate roof; stacks with brick shafts. Italianate style. Plan: A large double depth block. Entrance on the corner directly into the main public room: second, grander entrnace from Market Street into a passage; carriage entrance at extreme left from the High Street. Exterior: 3 storeys and cellar. 3x1x3 bays with a deep moulded cornice below a low parapet. First floor piano nobile with moulded platband at sill level, plain platband to second floor sill level. The left hand bay of the 3-bay High Street elevation is slightly set back with moulded brackets below the cornice. On the ground floor it contains a carriage entrance with a moulded segmental arch on granite jambs with chamferd bases and moulded capitals. Fine paired 6-panel doors to the carriagway, each ramped up to the centre and capped with iron spikes. To the right 2 segmental-headed recessess with large sash windows with moulded architraves and sills and apron panels below. Both windows originally 12-pane, left hand reglazed as 4-pane. 3 tall first floor 9/6-pane sashes with moulded architraves, cornices on consoles with triasngular pediments above. 3 round-headed first floor windows with moulded architraves, glazed with small-pane sashes with spoke glazing bars. The corner bay is recessed with brackets below the cornice. Segmental-headed doorway with a moulded architrave and original 2-leaf panelled door with a 2-pane overlight. Symmetrical 3-bay Market Street elevation, the windows matching the High Street elevation but the first floor windows without cornices or pediments. Central doorway with smart Ionic porch with stone columns with an entablature. Steps up to a round-headed doorway with panelled reveals and a pretty fanlight with a central roundel and teardrop glazing; C20 front door. Interior: Only partially inspected. Main bar largely modernised, features of interest may survive on the first and second floors. The grandest surviving building of the c.1836 Market Street area development, supported by Buller of Downes, which was sophisticated architecturally for a small provincial town.

Listing NGR: SS8320700329