38 And 39, Chapel Street

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 CHAPEL STREET 1011-1/6/54 (South side) 06/01/83 Nos.38 AND 39

GV II

Golden Lion inn, converted to flats. c1820. Stuccoed and blocked out; asbestos slate roof, gabled at right end, half-hipped at left end; rear left stack with rendered shaft. Plan: largely double-depth rectangular plan, original internal layout obscured by conversion. The right end, No.38, may be earlier in origin with windows set lower in the front wall. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window front with modillion eaves cornice. Recessed half-glazed C19 timber door with flush panels to right; 2nd half-glazed door to left of centre. Ground-floor windows 3 wide late C19 tripartite horned sashes, 4-pane in the centre flanked by 2-pane. 5 first-floor windows: four 16-pane early C19 hornless sashes, one a horned replacement. 2nd-floor windows 8 over 4-pane timber sashes, mostly C20 replacements. INTERIOR: No.39 re-partitioned. Roof has pegged A-frame trusses with halved apexes and considerable C20 strengthening. No.38 is single depth. Interior plain.

Listing NGR: SX7389266116