1 And 2, Market Street

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 MARKET STREET 1011-1/6/100 (East side) Nos.1 AND 2

GV II

House, divided into 2. Probably late C17 or earlier in origin with C19 alterations. Local stone rubble, roughcast; steep asbestos slate roof, gabled at ends; 2 rear lateral stacks with rendered shafts; right end stack with rendered shaft and platband, front right stack with roughcast shaft with platband, projecting through roof. Plan: probably a 3-room and through-passage plan in origin, lower end to the left (No.2), lower end and hall heated from the rear lateral stacks. Remains of a cartway indicate site of former passage. Both houses have secondary rear wings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2:3-window front. No.1 has a front door off the right side of an internal porch. No.2 has a half-glazed C20 door to the left. Ground-floor windows small-pane timber casements, probably C20. 5 first-floor 4-pane late C19 or early C20 horned sashes. INTERIOR: No.2 ground floor has late C17 chamfered step-stopped cross beam and half beam at junction with No.3. Fireplace to lateral stack has C20 lintel and jambs. First floor and roof not inspected but may be of interest, the roof could be C17 or earlier judging from the steep pitch. Other internal features of interest likely to be concealed behind modern plaster.

Listing NGR: SX7361266149