Grade II
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
listed building in Plympton, Devon, England.''Plympton St Maurice Conservation Area appraisal and Management Plan'' – Plymouth City Council, January 2008 Standing at 20 Fore Street, Plympton's main street, it dates to the 17th century and is believed to have originally been merchants' houses or tenements of cottages. It is now one property.
It has rubble walls, except for the deeply projecting first floor, which is render and likely timber framed.
Although its interior has not been inspected by Historic England, it was evaluated by '' Time Team'' in 1999. In the episode, architectural historian
Beric Morley
Beric M. Morley (19 September 1943 – 28 January 2015) was a British architectural historian and archaeologist. He became a familiar face on the Channel 4 television series ''Time Team''. He was a regional director for English He ...
discovered, in what would have been the back of the building in mediaeval times, a large timber
lintel
A lintel or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces. It can be a decorative architectural element, or a combined ornamented structural item. In the case of w ...
spanning a fireplace that was likely original to the 17th-century construction. A
dendochronology
Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed. As well as dating them, this can give data for dendroclimatology, the study of climate and at ...