30 And 31, Chapel Street

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 CHAPEL STREET 1011-1/6/50 (South side) Nos.30 AND 31

GV II

Pair of houses, c1775-1825 in origin, No.30 said to have been very rebuilt in the 1980s. Local grey limestone rubble; asbestos slate roof, gabled at ends; stack with rendered shaft and four C19 tall cream-coloured chimney pots. Plan: double-depth range, each house one room wide, No.30 with an unheated rear wing. Axial stack to party wall. No.30 is built against No.29 (qv), with the wall-plate of the tenter loft projecting slightly into the roofspace. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front with regular fenestration, mostly of matching late C19 four-pane horned sashes. No.31, to the left, has a depressed segmental-headed doorway to the left with a C20 timber panelled door and a blind fanlight with spoke glazing bars. Ground and first-floor windows alongside to right. No.30 has a C20 internal porch to the right with a C20 timber door and 4-pane fixed porch window alongside. 2-light timber casement with glazing bars above porch. 2 ground-floor and one first-floor window to left. INTERIOR: No.30 inspected. Plain interior with C20 joinery, one c1860s cast-iron grate and chimney-piece upstairs. Pegged collar rafter roof with halved collars, X-apex and possibly secondary ridge slightly to one side; trenched purlins. Features of interest may survive in No.30. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SX7381666125