1, North Street

ASHBURTON

SX7569 NORTH STREET 849-1/10/103 (West side) 10/05/73 No.1

II

House and shop. Late medieval, front remodelled and rear range added C18 or early C19. Rendered walls (ground floor rear wall and gable walls in roof space certainly of stone rubble); traces of lining to imitate masonry on upper storey front. Slated roof. Rendered chimney on right gable of front roof span. Parallel ranges 2 rooms wide with chimney in each gable wall. 2 storeys, 2 windows wide. Ground storey has centre pent-roof across whole front. Upper storey windows have barred sashes, 8-paned, the right-hand window with 2-paned side sashes. Interior: Ground storey has partitions removed. Chamfered cross-beam with stepped stops; some original joists about 15 cms wide survive. Upper floor right-hand chimney piece is mid-C19 with flanking pilasters and contemporary round-headed iron grate. 4-bay medieval roof with gable trusses. Only the feet of the second truss from left survive. Remainder complete with threaded purlins, mortice and tenoned-cranked collars, tenons for ashlar posts (only one apparently survives); gouged carpenter's marks; no ridge. Timbers smoke-blackened probably from an open hearth. Rear roof span much rebuilt, but has one C18 or early C19 truss with collar pegged to its face.

Listing NGR: SX7556969887