49 And 51, Fore Street

49 and 51 Fore Street are two adjoining houses located in Kingsteignton, dating from around the late 15th century, with remodels in the 16th and 17th centuries and later alterations. The houses are constructed of rendered cob and feature corrugated iron and asbestos tile roofs with gabled ends. There is a stone rubble rear lateral stack with a rendered shaft and a large rendered gable end stack with set-offs.

The original late 15th-century house had a three-room plan, with the two right-hand rooms now part of No 51 and the narrow left-hand room belonging to No 49. Initially, the house was open to the roof throughout. In the 16th century, a floor was added over the right-hand room, which jutted into the still open central hall. Later, likely in the 17th century, the left-hand room and hall were floored when a rear lateral stack was built to heat the hall. The narrow left-hand room may have been created at this time as a cross passage to the large lower end extension, which now forms part of No 49. No 49 has been extended at the rear, while No 51 has a 20th-century rear outshut.

The exterior features two storeys with an asymmetrical window arrangement of two windows on the left (No 49) and three on the right. All windows are 20th-century casements, and there are two 20th-century glazed doors located to the left of center. The rear elevation includes a lateral stack on the lower left range and a 20th-century outshut, with the right-hand range having a higher-level catslide roof and an axial stack.

Inside, there are no notable features on the ground floor. The original hipped roof over the three original bays remains intact and is smoke-blackened throughout, including the common rafters, battens, and original thatch. A jointed cruck truss over the hall features a mortice and tenoned cranked collar, a trenched diagonal ridge-piece, and trenched or threaded purlins. An inserted wattle-and-daub partition is smoke-blackened on the hall side only and jetties over the partition below on the ground floor. Another wattle-and-daub partition is located at the opposite low end of the hall. The first-floor chamber of No 49 contains a small late 18th-century moulded chimney-piece with a Victorian grate.