15, High Street

1. 5180 HIGH STREET (North Side) No 15 SX 8060 SW 1/63 25.3.69.

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1. Later C16 range at rear fronting onto churchyard; street block rebuilt earlier C19 to form a pair with No 17. A jewellers shop since circa 1800. Later C16 range 2 storeys. Irregular fenestration. Welsh slate roof with large masonry gable stack at north end. Plain eaves board. Random Devonian limestone rubble with roughcast finish. Opening with timber lintols. Former mullioned windows renewed early C19 with sashes. Interior with lower section of newel staircase partly recessed into wall with muntin and plank partition; turned balusters with closed string and square newels. Chamfered ceiling beams with stopped ends. Ground floor back room (former parlour), with Elizabethan plaster ceilings decorated with rosettes and ribwork. Earlier C19 front 3 storeys. 2 paired windows. Hipped Welsh slate roof with coved eaves cornice. Rendered masonry return on east side. Slate-hung, timber framed front. Architraved sash windows. Good mid C19 shopfront with boxed-out cornice flanked by consoles. Engraved glass fascia. Shop-window with columnette mullions and arched lights.

Listing NGR: SX8019360452