No 71 Including Wall Of Rear Plot

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7466 FORE STREET 1011-1/7/94 (North side) 06/01/83 No.71 including walls of rear plot (Formerly Listed as: FORE STREET (North side) No.71)

GV II

House with shop on the ground floor, at one time a bakery, now used as a restaurant. Probably C17 in origin and single phase with No.71A (qv), with later alterations. Stuccoed and blocked out; steeply-pitched asbestos slate roof, gabled at ends; stacks with stone rubble shafts. Plan: 3 rooms deep, 1 room wide with an axial staircase. Centre room was former bakery, rear room was parlour. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical one-window front. Late C19 or early C20 shop front with pilasters with scratch mouldings and capitals, moulded cornice on moulded consoles and 3-light plate-glass shop window with moulded frame and mullions, the right-hand light with a rounded corner and recessed half-glazed shop door to right. Late C18 or early C19 16-pane first-floor sash window. Rear elevation has modern lean-to. Rubble walls of rear plot survive as far as River Mardle. INTERIOR: centre room has exposed joists and timber-framed partition to rear room. Large late C19 cast-iron bread oven on right end wall, stamped Sandford of Totnes. Rear room has chamfered, stopped crossbeam and fireplace lintel with scratched date of 1633. Small 2-light timber mullioned window with leaded panes lights room from left. Roof timbers not inspected but probably of interest.

Listing NGR: SX7406066154