Whiddons Coffee Shop

CHAGFORD HIGH STREET, (south side), SX 7087 Chagford 6/115 Whiddons Coffee Shop -

GV II

Coffee shop, once 2 properties. Mid C17, partly rebuilt in early or mid C19. Plastered granite stone rubble; granite stacks topped with brick; thatch roof. Plan and development: 4-room plan building built end-on to High Street to the north-east. The front room projects forward from the properties either side. The front room has a C19 lateral stack on the left side. The room behind is a lobby and contains a C19 stair. The third room has an axial stack backing onto the lobby and the larger rear room has an end stack backing onto the adjoining lobby. The development of the house before the C19 is not easy but it seems that the front 2 or 3 rooms once formed a separate property from the rear 1 or 2-room plan cottage. The rear 2 rooms are mid C17, the front 2 are mid C19. In fact the front section rebuilt the service end room of a C16 3-room-and-through-passage plan house; the passage and former hall are now occupied by Church Stile Cottage (q.v.) adjoining to right. Building 2 storeys throughout. Exterior: front end has ground floor C20 shop window and first floor C19 16-pane sash and the roof is hipped above. The doorway is on the right side, C19 panelled door with narrow overlight and slate monopitch hood. The left side, through the passage contains various C19 casements and the former cottage doorway to the rear room contains an old plank door with studded cover strips. Interior: the oldest features are in the rear 2 rooms. Both have C17 soffit- Chamfered and scroll-stopped crossbeams and the back room has its contemporary fireplace exposed; granite with a soffit-chamfered and scroll-stopped oak lintel. Other fireplaces are blocked by C19 and C20 grates. Roof is inaccessible although the feet of the principals are exposed and indicate A-frame trusses throughout but those over the rear 2 rooms are probably C17.

Listing NGR: SX7008687481