3, Market Street

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 MARKET STREET 1011-1/6/101 (East side) 06/01/83 No.3 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET STREET (East side) Nos.3 AND 4)

GV II

House, probably one building phase originally with No.4 (qv) to the left, but with later alterations following sub-division. c1700 or earlier in origin. Mixed construction, mostly mass wall with some timber-framing. Ground floor of local grey limestone rubble, first floor of front slate-hung, rear of cartway slate-hung, rear of wing timber-framed and slate-hung at first-floor level; slate roof, gabled at ends. Plan: L-plan. Main block single-depth with a rear right wing at right-angles associated with a rear court, cartway to the left. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, originally probably 2. Asymmetrical front with one window on ground floor, 2 on first and 3 on second. Ground floor has shallow C20 small-pane timber bow window. First- and 2nd-floor windows small-pane C20 casements. Half-glazed door into rear wing from rear court. INTERIOR: modernised with back-to-back corner fireplaces, with renewed lintels. Most of first-floor partitions C20. Roof: probably C18 with halved pegged collars, principals halved and pegged at the apex, trenched purlins. Rear wing roof similar, exposed wall framing in gable end of stout scantling.

Listing NGR: SX7361266156