Description

BOVEY TRACEY FORE STREET, Bovey Tracey SX 8178

11/70 Nos. 25, 25A, 27 and 27A -

- II

Shop and flats, formerly a house. C16 with later additions. Solid rendered walls, partly at least of cob. Asbestos slated roofs. Front range with chimney-shaft on each gable; late C19 brick to left, C16 or C17 granite ashlar with tapered top to right. L-shaped plan, the front range possibly of 3-room and cross-passage type originally. Late C16 or C17 addition over archway to right. C20 addition at rear, off-centre to right. 2 storeys. 4-window front. Ground storey has centre doorway with early C19 reeded wood surround; pair of small brackets originally intended to support a hood. Late C19 shop window at either side. At far left-hand end a C20 window, probably a former doorway. At far right-hand end a flat-headed cart- entrance, its rear end having a chamfered wood lintel with scroll-stops on one side and straight-cut stops on the other. In second storey a blocked window in centre; 2 windows to left, each with 2-pane sashes. 2 C20 windows to right. Interior: shop door opens into former cross-passage. Similar ceiling-beams at either side with half-round, hollow and ogee mouldings; right-hand beam partly concealed by existing partition, left-hand beam with stud-mortices below, allowing for doorway in centre of former partition. To left of former passage the ceiling is considerably higher, possibly because a former open hall has been floored over in late C16 or C17. It has a full beam and a half-beam, both ovolo-moulded and with a raised run-out stop surviving; the half-beam abuts the wall above the partition- beam. To left of this ceiling is a plain boxed beam, possibly representing the former division between hall and inner room. To right of cross-passage a room with chamfered ceiling-beam. Rear wing, to left, has plastered chamfered ceiling-beam. Doorway from wing to front range has wood bolection-moulded architrave with pulvinated frieze above, almost touching a fragment of box-cornice. Front range seems to have been mostly re-roofed in C19. Closed truss of C16 or C17 with threaded purlins survives over division between cross-passage and lower room; feet of truss not visible. Room over cart-entrance separated from main house by cob wall; roofed with purlins fixed to end walls. Rear wing has jointed cruck trusses. Other features of interest are almost certainly concealed under plaster.

Listing NGR: SX8154778399

External Links

• Wikidata Q26618778

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)