50, North Street

SX7570 849-1/8/131

ASHBURTON NORTH STREET (East side) No.50

GV II

House. C16 or C17, re-windowed in C19 or C20. Solid roughcast walls, partly at least of stone rubble, possibly including some cob. Slated roof, half-hipped to right. 2 large stone rubble chimneys in rear wall; that to left (heating former hall) has tapered cap. 2-room-and-through-passage, with small extension behind the lower (right-hand) room. 2 storeys. 3 windows wide. Doorway off-centre to right. Gable wall to right has 2 windows in ground storey and 1 above. Small-paned wood casements throughout. Late C20 plank door. Interior: left-hand ground storey room, which must have been the hall, has C16 or C17 granite chimneypiece in rear wall; roughly shaped lintel on big rounded corbels. C17 chamfered ceiling beam with 2 scroll-stops. Rest of interior not inspected, except for the (plain) through-passage. There may be early roof timbers and other features concealed by plaster. No 54 North Street (not included in the listing) now forms part of this house. It contains an early-looking fireplace reported to be a C20 construction using old materials.

Listing NGR: SX7547270023