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Summary

House, 15th century, with later alterations. Plastered cob with stone footings and thatched roof.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II*) 1325820: 2, FORE STREET

Other References/Statuses

• Old Listed Building Ref (II*): 95438

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOUSE (XV - 1401 AD to 1500 AD (Between))

Full description

English Heritage, 1966, Silverton (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV337839.

No 2 Fore Street in Silverton forming part of a row that is possibly all of 1 late medieval build which includes Nos 2 - 12. 15th century or earlier. Plastered cob with stone footings. Thatched roof, half-hipped to right-hand end. Probably a variant of the 3-room, cross-passage plan, adapted to fit into sub-divided medieval tenement site, with hall and service room fronting Fore Street, with lateral external front stack heating hall, and inner room to rear (now rebuilt as No 2 School Road). 2-storeys. Front: 3-window range. One 2, and one 3-light casement window to first floor (with a 20th century 2-light window added); two 3-light casement windows to ground floor; recessed doorway (with panelled door) set immediately to the left of the stack with a pair of set offs and a brick shaft; left hand axial stack, 19th century. Interior not inspected. This is a most interesting example of a late-medieval urban plan type which is discussed by J R L Thorp, "Two Hall Houses in a Late Medieval Terrace: 8-12 Fore Street, Silverton", Proc. Devon Archaeological Society 40 (1982), 171-80.

Ordnance Survey, 2014, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV355681.

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