60, New Exeter Street

CHUDLEIGH NEW EXETER STREET, Chudleigh SX 8679. 6/67 No 60 - II

House. Early/mid C17 or earlier, C20 renovations. Local limestone rubble, pebbledashed on the front elevation; corrugated iron roof (formerly thatched) end stacks, the right end stack with dripledges. The present plan is a single depth main range, 2 rooms wide with a through passage in the centre. Rear left single-storey lean-to addition, rear right 2-storey addition containing stair. 2 blocked doorways at the right end of the house suggest that the present building is the lower end, passage and hall of what was originally a 3 room and through passage house, the inner room being no. 61, adjoining at the right end. It is not clear whether the lower end was originally heated, the left end stack may be an insertion, the hall is heated from a stack at the higher end. A C20 thatch fire destroyed some of the roof timbers, the front elevation has been refenestrated. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3 windows front with a central C20 front door and C20 2- and 3-light casements with glazing bars, the ground floor windows plastic. Interior 2 oak plank and muntin screens to the through passage with chamfered muntins. Passage paved with local 'marble'. The right hand fireplace (putative hall) has a chamfered half beam with step stops and an open fireplace with stone rubble jambs and a replaced timber lintel. 1 exposed jointed cruck truss (side- pegged), a second truss is encased in a later partition. Apex of truss inaccessible at time of survey (1986) but the timbers above the first floor ceiling said to have been damaged by fire. The early features are an important survival in Chudleigh which was largely destroyed by fire in 1807.

Listing NGR: SX8698779708