No 71 Including Wall of Rear Plot

No. 71, including the walls of the rear plot, is a house with a shop on the ground floor, which was once a bakery and is now used as a restaurant. It likely dates from the 17th century and is part of a single phase with No. 71A, featuring later alterations. The building is stuccoed and has a steeply-pitched asbestos slate roof with gabled ends and stacks with stone rubble shafts.

The plan consists of three rooms deep and one room wide, with an axial staircase. The center room was the former bakery, while the rear room served as a parlour. The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical one-window front. It features a late 19th or early 20th-century shop front with pilasters that have scratch mouldings and capitals, a moulded cornice on moulded consoles, and a three-light plate-glass shop window with a moulded frame and mullions. The right-hand light has a rounded corner and a recessed half-glazed shop door to the right. There is a late 18th or early 19th-century 16-pane sash window on the first floor. The rear elevation includes a modern lean-to, while the rubble walls of the rear plot extend as far as the River Mardle.

Inside, the center room has exposed joists and a timber-framed partition leading to the rear room. There is a large late 19th-century cast-iron bread oven on the right end wall, stamped "Sandford of Totnes." The rear room features a chamfered, stopped crossbeam and a fireplace lintel with a scratched date of 1633. A small two-light timber mullioned window with leaded panes provides light to this room from the left. The roof timbers have not been inspected but are likely of interest.