48, Fore Street

1. 5180 FORE STREET (South Side) ------------ No 48 SX 8060 SW 2/29 7.1.52.

II* GV

1. Later C16 or early C17 merchant's house of "deux corps de batiments" type. Gallery and back block rebuilt circa 1914. 3 storeys and attic. 2 windows to end floor. Welsh slate roof with old stack heightened in red brick. Gabled front with panelled bargeboards. Masonry party walls of Devonian limestone with moulded granite corbels of former jetties. Timber framed front renewed later C19 with jettied 1st and 2nd floors. Slate-hung gable. Rendered 1st and 2nd floors. Stucco ground floor with late C19 tiled shop front. Attic and 2nd floor with architraved sash windows with glazing bars; 1st floor with splayed oriel window with sashes and cornice. 2nd floor jetty retains original moulded bressumer. Shop window with large panes. Architraved house doorway with dentil cornice and panelled door approached by steps. Good Elizabethan plaster ceilings to 2nd floor room with rib patterns and enriched foliated beams (formerly part of fore-chamber of originalouse). Fine Jacobean plaster ceiling with strapwork decoration and enriched beams to 1st floor front room (former fore-hall of original house). Grade II* for interior and group value. For house type see list preamble.

Listing NGR: SX8038060391