22 And 23, Fore Street

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7466 FORE STREET 1011-1/7/73 (South side) Nos.22 AND 23

GV II

House including shop. No.22 probably early C18 in origin, remodelled in the late 1850s or early 1860s, contemporary with No.23. Local stone rubble, stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof, gabled at ends; stacks with rendered shafts with platbands and attractive barley-sugar twisted pot. Plan: double-depth plan, 2 rooms wide, passage entrance to left of shopfront. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1:3-window front with regular fenestration. Left hand block slightly broken forward with a canted corner and gabled to the front with curly pierced bargeboards. 2 ground- and one first-floor 4-pane late C19 horned sash windows. Doorway into accommodation of right-hand block to left. Moulded doorcase; 6-panel door with overlight. Late C19 shop front to right with pilasters with sunk panels with projecting cornice with stylised foliage frieze. Plate-glass shop window with moulded frame and rounded upper corners. Half-glazed panelled shop door to left with deep overlight with rounded upper corners. 3 first-floor 4-pane hornless sash windows with moulded architraves and sill blocks. INTERIOR: No.22 modernised inside but the attic space contains an externally-blocked 2-light timber mullioned window with panes and the truss of the section gabled to the road re-uses a jointed cruck as a principal rafter. The main roof, rear of the gable block has the principal rafters mortised into tie beams.

Listing NGR: SX7402066130