31, East Street

ASHBURTON

SX7569 EAST STREET 849-1/10/46 (North side) 07/08/51 No.31

GV II*

House. Early C18. Front has exposed stone rubble ground storey. Slate-hung second storey with unique, small fish-scale slates (probably original). Later slate-hanging on face of dormer and on left side wall. Slated roof. Rendered chimney on right gable end. One room wide, 2 rooms deep, with through-passage to left of ground storey. Staircase adjoins rear end of passage to right. 2 storeys with garret. 2 windows wide. Ground storey has 4-panelled door to left, the 2 bottom panels flush. To right, a pair of plain sash windows set in a wide blocked opening. Above the ground storey a moulded wood cornice with slate-hanging (not the original) swept out over it. Upper storey has 6-paned sash windows in moulded flush frames, the right-hand window of 2 lights. Coved eaves-cornice. Dormer gable spans whole front; two 6-paned sash windows, slate-hung bargeboards. Interior: inspected during building work in 1977. Wood bolection-moulded chimneypieces. Wood stair with square newels, turned balusters, heavy moulded handrails. Unusual roof with square centre post braced at all 4 corners; front gable truss has collar pegged to face of principal rafters. Similar fish-scale slates were found lying loose in the garret of Nos.35-37 (odd) High Street, Totnes, in 1989. (Laithwaite M: 1977-).

Listing NGR: SX7569969957