Description

CREDITON

SS826000 UNION ROAD
672-1/5/165 (North side)
11/10/72 No.11

GV II*

House, the ground floor now used as 2 shops. Circa 1730.
Painted Flemish bond brick; tarred slate roof; rear lateral
stacks with brick shafts.
Plan: single-depth main block, 3 rooms wide, with stairs
behind central hall.Later C18 or early C19 rear right lean-to
provides an extra room first floor rear right, now used as a
kitchen.
Exterior: 2 storeys. 3-bay front, originally symmetrical.
Timber doorcase with fluted Doric pilasters, these may
pre-date the flat porch canopy on moulded brackets which sit
awkwardly on the capitals. Original 6-panel door, the upper
panels fielded with a pretty bead-moulded fanlight with
decorated spoke glazing bars. Ground floor window right is an
early C19 16-pane sash, lower sash replaced with plate glass.
Late C19 timber shop front to left with panelled pilasters
with shaped gabled brackets and a moulded cornice; recessed
central half-glazed door with flush lower panels and a glazed
overlight; plate glass shop windows to left and right. 3 first
floor original C18 double-hung boxed sashes with thick glazing
bars, some original glass and individual opening panes; centre
window 12-pane, outer windows 16-pane.
Interior: Very complete. The hall has plain panelling with
original skirting, panelled doors and a timber moulded
cornice. Dining room also panelled with panelled shutters. The
parlour (now a barber's shop) is particularly fine; fully
panelled with fielded and moulded panels. The panelling is now
painted but the present owner stated that it is oak and was
exposed when she purchased the house in the 1930s. The
original timber chimney-piece (mantel-piece added later) is
flanked by fluted Doric pilasters with an entablature and
triglyph frieze with guttae and a delicate dentil frieze below
the cornice. This is so similar to a chimney-piece in Pownes
House (No 72, High Street(q.v.)) as to suggest the same
designer. Fine original stair rises to a half landing and
extends to the attic: open string, turned balusters, square
newel posts, engaged balustrade against the wall and a
flat-topped moulded handrail. The first floor rooms are
plainer; small closet to centre has been enlarged. Second
floor room left has a C19 white marble chimney-piece. Basement
kitchen and cellar said to be very unaltered. Roof: Pegged
A-frames with lapped collars. One of the purlins has been cut
through at the rear to accommodate an attic window.
This fine early C18 town house is an unusual survival in
Crediton and probably pre-dates the fire of 1743. In spite of
the commercial use of the ground floor, the plan and most of
the fittings are intact.

Listing NGR: SS8334600269

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548395

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