Little Front House

Little Front House is a building that serves as self-catering apartments, part of the Front House Guest House, and was formerly a single house. It dates from the 16th century or early 17th century, with later additions. The structure features a combination of stone and timber framing, with a tarred, slated roof that has a gable end facing the street. There is a rendered chimney stack on the left-hand wall. The building appears to have been one room wide and two rooms deep, with some evidence of a passage on the right-hand side. It is two storeys high, with a jettied, timber-framed front that is covered with roughcast. This front is set between side walls made of granite ashlar, with the upper storeys projecting on moulded corbels that match the jetty.

On the ground storey, there is one 20th-century window, a four-light casement with leaded panes, located to the right. The second storey features a four-light casement with two transom lights in the centre. The tie-beam and principal rafters with a notched apex are exposed in the gable and are likely from the 19th century, along with the projecting eaves on brackets. A lean-to on the right-hand side is a later addition, featuring double doors from the late 18th or early 19th century, with each leaf having a flush lower wooden panel and a later glazed upper panel. To the left, there is a rubble wall that masks the 80-centimetre gap between Little Front House and Front House Guest House. The original rear wall is made of rendered stone.

Inside, the ground storey has a fireplace with a chamfered wood lintel, roughly central in the left-hand wall. There is a former partition beam with large mortices on its soffit that butts into the rear end of the chimney breast. Above, a 20th-century partition divides off the front of the house, featuring a chamfered beam with step-stops. At the right-hand end, there are disused mortices, likely for a former side-passage partition, indicated by step-stops. The heavy plain joists with a pegged trimmer are probably for a former staircase adjoining the side passage. There is also a doorway with a chamfered wood lintel in the right-hand side wall. The second storey and roof have not been inspected. This building is notable as the only house in Bovey Tracey that retains the jettied front of mixed stone and timber construction, which is characteristic of the wealthier Devon towns in the 16th and 17th centuries.