Nos 26 And 27 Including Walls To Rear Plot

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 MARKET STREET 1011-1/6/111 (West side) Nos.26 AND 27 including walls to rear plot

GV II

House, disused at time of survey (1992), including walls to rear plot. c1840, perhaps a recasting of an earlier building. Mass wall construction, stuccoed and blocked out; torched, turnerised slate roof; right end stack with brick shaft with platband, rear left stack with rendered shaft; crested ridge tiles. Plan: single-depth main block, 2 rooms wide with a rear wing at right-angles. Rear left room unheated with a large doorway on the left return. Main block has central entrance into passage. Staircase against left end wall, second staircase in rear right room. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 3-bay symmetrical front plus 2nd doorway to left. C19 recessed 4-panel door with narrow overlight to centre of symmetrical section; C19 or early C20 timber door to left. 2 ground-floor windows, boarded up; 3 first-floor 16-pane sashes, the centre sash a horned replacement. The left return of the main block has a door with a lean-to porch hood of corrugated asbestos, one first-floor 4-pane horned sash. Rear wing has one first-floor 3-light window with a brick arch and a wide ground-floor doorway, partly boarded up at time of survey. INTERIOR: C19 joinery survives. Ground-floor front right has a corner fireplace with an 1860s chimney-piece; C19 grates and one chimney-piece survive upstairs. Roof: A-frame trusses halved and nailed at the apex with halved collars and trenched purlins.

Listing NGR: SX7359166205