Description

BOVEY TRACEY FORE STREET, Bovey Tracey SX 8178

11/71 No. 65 - 16,1 .86 GV II

House. Late C16 or C17 with C20 addition at rear. Stone and cob; front wall covered with roughcast, except for patches of C20 render. Thatched roof (the only one left in main street) hipped at each end. C20 brick chimney-shaft at right-hand end. 2 storeys, with single-storey brick lean-to at rear. 2 windows wide, all windows C19 of wood. Doorway at extreme left of ground storey has plank door. 2 windows in centre of ground storey. To left a 2-light casement, each light with 8 panes, to right a 6-pane lower light with 3-pane transom light. In second storey 2 smaller windows at different levels; to left a 2-light casement with 6 panes per light, to right a similar window with one horizontally sliding sash. Interior: ground plan consists of through passage to left and a single room to right. Passage has thick, plain joists above; at rear a chamfered wood door-frame, originally straight-headed, but converted to a shouldered head in C20. The room has projecting chimney-breast with C20 fireplace in right-hand gable. Beside it, to rear, a newel staircase partly set into a semi-circular recess in the wall. Probably original fireplaces, ceiling-beams, roof-timbers and other features concealed under plaster.

Listing NGR: SX8162178506

External Links

• Wikidata Q26389700

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