Nos 26 And 27 Including Walls To Rear Plot

Nos. 26 and 27 on Market Street in Buckfastleigh are a pair of houses dating from around 1840, possibly built over an earlier structure. The buildings are constructed of mass wall with a stucco finish and have a torched, turnerised slate roof. The right end features a brick stack with a platband, while the rear left has a rendered stack and both ends are topped with crested ridge tiles. The layout includes a single-depth main block that is two rooms wide, with a rear wing at right angles. The left room at the back is unheated and has a large doorway on the left side. The main entrance leads into a passage, with a staircase against the left wall and a second staircase in the rear right room.

The exterior is two storeys high and features a symmetrical three-bay front with an additional doorway to the left. The central entrance has a 19th-century recessed four-panel door with a narrow overlight, while the left door is a timber door from the 19th or early 20th century. There are two ground-floor windows that are boarded up, and three first-floor 16-pane sash windows, with the centre sash being a horned replacement. The left side of the main block has a door with a lean-to porch hood made of corrugated asbestos and one first-floor four-pane horned sash window. The rear wing includes a first-floor three-light window with a brick arch and a wide ground-floor doorway, which was partly boarded up at the time of the survey.

Inside, 19th-century joinery remains, including a corner fireplace in the ground-floor front right room with an 1860s chimney-piece, as well as 19th-century grates and another chimney-piece upstairs. The roof features A-frame trusses that are halved and nailed at the apex, with halved collars and trenched purlins. The buildings were disused at the time of the survey in 1992.