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Summary

Two storey house with basement, believed to have been divided into three cottages in the 1950s. 1720s or earlier.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1384928: 32, 34 AND 36, ST PETER STREET

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS91SE/232
• Old Listed Building Ref (II): 485387

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOUSE (XVIII - 1701 AD to 1800 AD (Between))

Full description

Department of Environment, 1972, Tiverton, 50 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV52494.

Probably 18th century altered, cottage type houses, two storey, flush frame sash windows with glazing bars, plain doorways, no 32, small former shop front altered back to three-light sash window with glazing bars. Small eaves, rather steep slate roof.

Ordnance Survey, 2012, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV348725.

English Heritage, 2012, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV348729.

House, believed to have been divided into three cottages in the 1950s; No.32 now used as office. 1720s or earlier.
Materials: smooth-plastered mass wall construction to ground floor front, thinner front wall to No.32 at least; left gable end rebuilt in brick. Slate roof, natural slate to No.32; left end stack with shaft dismantled; rear right lateral stack with brick shaft and crested pot; No.32 has cast-iron rainwater goods.
Plan: single depth main range, two rooms wide (formerly extended further to the left) with small courtyard to rear.
Exterior: two storeys and basement. Asymmetrical three-window front with eaves cornice. Approximately central front door, the upper panels glazed, with overlight. No.34 to right of centre has a 20th century six-panel door with fielded panels and tripartite sash alongside with a 12-pane light in the centre and four-pane outer lights. No.32, to the right, has a former shop front with a cornice and a 20th century timber and glazed door with older pilastered doorcase and a tripartite horned sash shop window with four-pane central light and outer two-pane lights.
Interior: No.32 preserves 18th century two-panel doors and a small cast-iron 19th century grate and timber chimney-piece on the first floor. Considerable timber replacement in the roof which is of collar rafter design with nailed collars and butt purlins. The trusses have carpenter's assembly marks and some evidence of charring. No.36 has a boxed-in crossbeam and features of interest may survive elsewhere, concealed by later wall plaster etc.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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