NO 24 WEST STREET, FORMERLY NO 16 EDMUND STREET
Description:
This house is celebrated by Exonians as the ‘House that Moved’, having been transported from its original position on the corner of Edmund Street and Frog Street (Thomas and Warren 1980, 49), some 50 yards to this new corner site in 1961 (Portman 1966, 73; Cherry and Pevsner 1989, 424). The building, timber framed on three sides, with a west wall of Permian breccia, is dated by Portman to c.1500; its original position on a corner ensured that it was jettied on two adjacent elevations, and the timber-framed structure incorporates diagonal dragon beams and large curved-headed posts to carry the projecting corners at first- and second- floor levels. The large curving braces are typical of this type of late-medieval timber framing in Exeter (cf. the Stepcote Hill buildings opposite: Monument No. 11155). Other notable features are the one- and two-light windows with traceried cinquefoiled heads, and the small-scale of the building in plan: the ground floor measured only 4.25 x 2.9m (14’ x 9’ 6”), and accommodated a shop, kitchen and a tight winding stair to the first floor, where there was a heated hall, and two chambers in the second floor. A full description is given by Portman (1966, 73-4, Pl. 4 and Fig. 10).
Extant: Yes
Country: England
County: Devon
District: Exeter
Parish: Exeter
Grid Reference:
SX917922
Map Reference:
[EPSG:27700] 291715, 92220
Period: 1300 - 1540, LATER MEDIEVAL CITY
Subject: BUILDING
Identifiers:
[ADS] Depositor Id: 11153.0
[ADS] Import RCN: ECHER11-11153.0
People Involved:
[Publisher] Exeter City Council
Bibliographic References:
- Department of the Environment (1974) List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of Exeter, p. 284. Department of the Environment.
- Shapter, T. (1849) The History of the Cholera in Exeter in 1832, p. 111. John Churchill.
- -- (unknown) in Bright Collection
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