Description

ASHBURTON

SX7570 EAST STREET 849-1/9/61 (North side) No.53

GV II

House with shop. Late medieval; extended at rear, probably in late C17 or C18; remodelled in early or mid C19. Rendered stone rubble, except for rear wing, which has upper storey walls of cob to left and partly rough timber-framing to right. Slated roof. Rendered chimneys on front range at left-hand end of ridge and at right-hand end of rear wall. 2-room front range with central through-passage; right-hand room is a truncated former open hall, originally extending across the site of No.55. C19 stair behind left-hand room. 2-room rear wing to left, the front section originally an open-fronted cart linhay. 2 storeys. 2 windows wide. Render lined to imitate masonry. Lean-to porch and shop window to left of ground storey. 2-pane sash window to right. 2-light wood casements in upper storey; 3 panes per light. All windows have recessed box frames. Bracketed eaves-cornice with a light moulding beneath. Interior: stud-and-panel screens at either side of passage, boarded on the passage side, plain studding on reverse; only 2 original studs survive on left-hand side. Above right-hand screen an internal jetty (originally projecting into open hall) with rounded joist ends; latter now cut off towards rear end of room. In back wall of this room a C16 or early C17 granite chimneypiece with roughly shaped monolithic jambs and lintel; the inside cheeks of jambs incised to imitate ashlar, a rare (possibly unique) device in Devon. Left-hand room has blocked window in party-wall, suggesting the building was originally free-standing on that side. Roof structure retains one heavily smoke-blackened late medieval truss at right-hand end, adopting the lap-jointed collar with shaped ends, most commonly used in Devon in late C16 and C17; threaded purlins (one blackened one remains), no ridge. At left-hand end a possibly C18 truss with collar pegged to its face. Cart linhay has 2 round stone rubble columns. Rear end appears to have been a ground floor cellar with solid front wall; large fireplace with wooden lintel (renewed) in room above. Roof trusses in whole wing have collars pegged to their faces.

Listing NGR: SX7578269999

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)