68, Fore Street is a Grade II* listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1952. A Early Modern Medieval hall.

68, Fore Street

WRENN ID
crooked-pillar-gorse
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Country
England
Date first listed
7 January 1952
Type
Medieval hall
Period
Early Modern
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. 5180 FORE STREET (South Side) ------------ No 68 SX 8060 SW 2/35A 7.1.52.

II* GV

  1. Possibly a single storey medieval hall, heightened in the C17 and refronted mid C18. (M Laithwaite). The building retains its detached back block (former kitchen now No 68A) and gallery, both much altered, of "deux corps de batiments" type. 2 storeys and attics 1st floor with 2 paired windows. Welsh slate roof with bitumen asphalt sheets and gabled front. Masonry party walls of Devonian limestone rubble with traces of moulded corbel of former C17 jetty to 1st floor at west end. Party wall on west side much patched with evidence for blocked windows with timber lintols; rear block with 2 light wooden mullioned window with chamfered mouldings and stay bars. Plastered, timber-framed front. Architraved sash windows with exposed boxing and glazing bars to attic and 1st floor. Modern shopfront, but retains heavy boxed-out cornice of former C18 shop. Chamfered ground floor ceiling beams. Grade II* for group value.

Listing NGR: SX8031060409

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